TCP Port 1434 – ms-sql-m

About TCP Port 1434

Port 1434 is registered with the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) for ms-sql-m. The IANA description reads: ‘Microsoft-SQL-Monitor’. 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 TCP port 1434. 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 1434:

• ET SCAN Behavioral Unusual Port 1434 traffic Potential Scan or Infection

Data Sources

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