During a wireless penetration test you captured a WPA2 four-way handshake into a .pcap file. To off-load GPU cracking to hashcat you must first convert the capture to .hccapx. Which utility included in the hashcat-utils package performs this conversion without external scripts?
cap2hccapx is distributed with the hashcat-utils collection and is designed specifically to read .pcap or .cap files that hold WPA/WPA2 four-way handshakes and output them in the .hccapx format required by hashcat. Aircrack-ng can also export .hccapx with its -J option, but it is not part of hashcat-utils. coWPAtty has no handshake-conversion feature, and Reaver is intended for WPS PIN brute-forcing, not handshake processing. Therefore, cap2hccapx is the correct choice.
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