TCP Port 1236 – bvcontrol

About TCP Port 1236

Port 1236 is registered with the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) for bvcontrol. The IANA description reads: ‘bvcontrol’. This port is referenced in 1 IDS rule and exhibits low malware activity in monitored traffic.

IDS Rule References

1 IDS / security rule reference TCP port 1236. 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 (1).

Sample rule descriptions for TCP port 1236:

• MALWARE-BACKDOOR Infector 1.6 Client to Server Connection Request

Malware Rule References

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

1 of the 1 IDS rule that reference TCP port 1236 are malware related. That describes detection coverage across the whole internet, not anything about your machine or your network.

Data Sources

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