TCP Port 5100 – socalia

About TCP Port 5100

Port 5100 is registered with the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) for socalia. The IANA description reads: ‘Socalia service mux’. 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 5100. 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): policy-violation (2).

Sample rule descriptions for TCP port 5100:

• POLICY-SOCIAL Yahoo IM conference request
• POLICY-SOCIAL Yahoo IM conference watch

Data Sources

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