TCP Port 23432

About TCP Port 23432

Port 23432 sits outside of IANA’s formally registered assignments. Ports in this numerical range can be assigned by IANA but this specific port has no current registration. It is referenced in 2 IDS rules and exhibits low malware activity indicators. Ports outside formal IANA assignment are commonly used by malware authors and security tooling.

IDS Rule References

2 IDS / security rules reference TCP port 23432. 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): misc-activity (2).

Sample rule descriptions for TCP port 23432:

• MALWARE-CNC Asylum 0.1 connection request
• MALWARE-CNC Asylum 0.1 connection

Malware Rule References

A small share of the IDS rules that reference this port are malware related.

2 of the 2 IDS rules that reference TCP port 23432 are malware related. That describes detection coverage across the whole internet, not anything about your machine or your network.

Families observed (top 1): Asylum (2).

Data Sources

This information is compiled from: Snort Community Rules (GPLv2).