TCP Port 515 – printer

About TCP Port 515

Port 515 carries the IANA assignment for printer. The IANA description reads: ‘spooler’. This port appears in 4 IDS rules and does not have notable malware activity indicators in our data.

IDS Rule References

4 IDS / security rules reference TCP port 515. Presence in IDS rules does not mean traffic on this port is malicious. These are patterns security tools monitor.

Rule categories (top 3): attempted-admin (2), system-call-detect (1), attempted-dos (1).

Sample rule descriptions for TCP port 515:

• SERVER-OTHER LPRng overflow
• OS-LINUX Redhat 7.0 lprd overflow
• SERVER-OTHER LPD dvips remote command execution attempt
• OS-WINDOWS Microsoft Windows TCP print service overflow attempt

Data Sources

This information is compiled from: IANA Service Name and Transport Protocol Port Number Registry and Snort Community Rules (GPLv2).