TCP Port 6969 – acmsoda
About TCP Port 6969
Port 6969 is registered with the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) for acmsoda. The IANA description reads: ‘acmsoda’. This port is referenced in 13 IDS rules and exhibits moderate malware activity in monitored traffic.
IDS Rule References
13 IDS / security rules reference TCP port 6969. 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 (3), command-and-control (1), attempted-user (1), misc-attack (1).
Sample rule descriptions for TCP port 6969:
- MALWARE-BACKDOOR GateCrasher
- SERVER-OTHER CHAT IRC topic overflow
- POLICY-SOCIAL IRC nick change
- SERVER-OTHER CHAT IRC Ettercap parse overflow attempt
- POLICY-SOCIAL IRC message
Malware Rule References
A meaningful share of the IDS rules that reference this port are malware related.
4 of the 13 IDS rules that reference TCP port 6969 are malware related. That describes detection coverage across the whole internet, not anything about your machine or your network.
Families observed (top 3): GateCrasher (1), 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).