UDP Port 3150 – nm-asses-admin

About UDP Port 3150

Port 3150 is registered with the Internet Assigned Numbers Authority (IANA) for nm-asses-admin. The IANA description reads: ‘NetMike Assessor Administrator’. This port is referenced in 2 IDS rules and exhibits low malware activity in monitored traffic.

IDS Rule References

2 IDS / security rules reference UDP port 3150. 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): trojan-activity (2).

Sample rule descriptions for UDP port 3150:

• MALWARE-BACKDOOR DeepThroat 3.1 Connection attempt on port 3150
• MALWARE-BACKDOOR DeepThroat 3.1 Server Response on port 3150

Malware Rule References

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

2 of the 2 IDS rules that reference UDP port 3150 are malware related. That describes detection coverage across the whole internet, not anything about your machine or your network.

Families observed (top 1): DeepThroat (2).

Data Sources

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