TCP Port 50002
About TCP Port 50002
Port 50002 is not assigned to any service in the IANA Service Names and Port Numbers Registry. This port falls within the dynamic/private port range, which IANA explicitly does not register; these ports are intended for ephemeral or temporary use. It is referenced in 2048 IDS rules and exhibits moderate malware activity indicators. Ports outside formal IANA assignment are commonly used by malware authors and security tooling.
IDS Rule References
2048 IDS / security rules reference TCP port 50002. 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 6): trojan-activity (730), web-application-activity (476), web-application-attack (344), attempted-recon (270), misc-activity (76), attempted-user (58).
Sample rule descriptions for TCP port 50002:
- SERVER-WEBAPP PCCS mysql database admin tool access
- SERVER-WEBAPP HyperSeek hsx.cgi directory traversal attempt
- SERVER-WEBAPP SWSoft ASPSeek Overflow attempt
- SERVER-WEBAPP Progress webspeed access
- SERVER-WEBAPP yabb directory traversal attempt
Malware Rule References
A meaningful share of the IDS rules that reference this port are malware related.
683 of the 2048 IDS rules that reference TCP port 50002 are malware related. That describes detection coverage across the whole internet, not anything about your machine or your network.
Families observed (top 8): Bancos (20), Fareit (15), Zeus (15), DesertFalcon (11), Symmi (11), Zebrocy (11), Chopper (10), Locky (9), and 262 more families.
Data Sources
This information is compiled from: Emerging Threats Open Ruleset (BSD 2-Clause / GPLv2 per SID range), Snort Community Rules (GPLv2), and MITRE ATT&CK (Apache 2.0).