UDP Port 518 – ntalk

About UDP Port 518

Port 518 carries the IANA assignment for ntalk. This port appears in 1 IDS rule and does not have notable malware activity indicators in our data.

IDS Rule References

1 IDS / security rule reference UDP port 518. Treat that number as context, not a danger score. Many detection rules are written against groups of ports rather than one service, web ports especially, so common web alternate ports inherit large counts while genuinely sensitive services can show few rules or none. Presence in IDS rules does not mean traffic on this port is malicious.

Rule categories (top 1): attempted-admin (1).

Sample rule descriptions for UDP port 518:

• OS-LINUX ntalkd x86 Linux overflow

Data Sources

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