TCP Port 617 – sco-dtmgr

About TCP Port 617

Port 617 carries the IANA assignment for sco-dtmgr. The IANA description reads: ‘SCO Desktop Administration Server’. This port appears in 4 IDS rules and does not have notable malware activity indicators in our data.

IDS Rule References

4 IDS / security rules reference TCP port 617. 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 2): attempted-recon (2), attempted-user (2).

Sample rule descriptions for TCP port 617:

• SERVER-OTHER Arkeia client backup system info probe
• SERVER-OTHER Arkeia client backup generic info probe
• SERVER-OTHER Arkeia backup client type 77 overflow attempt
• SERVER-OTHER Arkeia backup client type 84 overflow attempt

Data Sources

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