TCP Port 6714 – ibprotocol
About TCP Port 6714
Port 6714 is registered with the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) for ibprotocol. The IANA description reads: ‘Internet Backplane Protocol’. This port is referenced in 12 IDS rules and exhibits moderate malware activity in monitored traffic.
IDS Rule References
12 IDS / security rules reference TCP port 6714. 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 5): policy-violation (7), trojan-activity (2), command-and-control (1), attempted-user (1), misc-attack (1).
Sample rule descriptions for TCP port 6714:
- SERVER-OTHER CHAT IRC topic overflow
- POLICY-SOCIAL IRC nick change
- SERVER-OTHER CHAT IRC Ettercap parse overflow attempt
- POLICY-SOCIAL IRC message
- POLICY-SOCIAL IRC DCC file transfer request
Malware Rule References
A meaningful share of the IDS rules that reference this port are malware related.
3 of the 12 IDS rules that reference TCP port 6714 are malware related. That describes detection coverage across the whole internet, not anything about your machine or your network.
Families observed (top 2): MAGICHOUND.MPK (1), Siloscape (1).
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), Snort Community Rules (GPLv2), and MITRE ATT&CK (Apache 2.0).