TCP Port 8988

About TCP Port 8988

Port 8988 has no formal IANA registration. Ports in this numerical range can be assigned by IANA but this specific port has no current registration. It is referenced in 1 IDS rule and exhibits low malware activity indicators. Ports outside formal IANA assignment are commonly used by malware authors and security tooling.

IDS Rule References

1 IDS / security rule reference TCP port 8988. 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): command-and-control (1).

Sample rule descriptions for TCP port 8988:

• ET MALWARE Win32/RaaLoader CnC Activity

Malware Rule References

A small share of the IDS rules that reference this port are malware related.

1 of the 1 IDS rule that reference TCP port 8988 are malware related. That describes detection coverage across the whole internet, not anything about your machine or your network.

Families observed (top 1): RaaLoader (1).

Data Sources

This information is compiled from: Emerging Threats Open Ruleset (BSD 2-Clause / GPLv2 per SID range).