TCP Port 2104 – zephyr-hm

About TCP Port 2104

The Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) registers port 2104 for zephyr-hm. The IANA description reads: ‘Zephyr hostmanager’. This port is referenced in 2 IDS rules and exhibits low malware activity in monitored traffic.

IDS Rule References

2 IDS / security rules reference TCP port 2104. 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): trojan-activity (2).

Sample rule descriptions for TCP port 2104:

• ET MALWARE Executable contained in DICOM Medical Image PACS DICOM Protocol Transfer
• ET MALWARE Executable contained in DICOM Medical Image Received from PACS DICOM Device

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 2104 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 Emerging Threats Open Ruleset (BSD 2-Clause / GPLv2 per SID range).