TCP Port 2555 – compaq-wcp

About TCP Port 2555

Port 2555 carries the IANA assignment for compaq-wcp. The IANA description reads: ‘Compaq WCP’. This port appears in 2 IDS rules and does not have notable malware activity indicators in our data.

IDS Rule References

2 IDS / security rules reference TCP port 2555. 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-recon (2).

Sample rule descriptions for TCP port 2555:

• ET SCAN Internal to Internal UPnP Request tcp port 2555
• ET SCAN External to Internal UPnP Request tcp port 2555

Data Sources

This information is compiled from: IANA Service Name and Transport Protocol Port Number Registry and Emerging Threats Open Ruleset (BSD 2-Clause / GPLv2 per SID range).