exit counts by port number over 61 days

Sven Anderson sven at anderson.de
Tue Apr 14 13:06:22 UTC 2009


Hi Scott,

Am 13.04.2009 um 19:00 schrieb Scott Bennett:
>
> 	1)  Why is the nicname/whois port the most heavily used?  In fact,
> 	why is it getting much use at all?

My guess: spammers and profilers, scanning for email adresses and  
other personal data.

> 	2) Why are there so many exits to the standard socks port?  It
> 	seems kind of strange to go all the way through the tor network
> 	fully encrypted, only to exit in the clear to a port somewhere
> 	else for re-encryption.  Similarly, what about pptp?

There are Trojans opening backdoors on that port.

http://isc.sans.org/port.html?port=1080

> 	4) Who still uses RFS?  Didn't that die out a *long* time ago?
> 	(The rfs port had 70 exits.)

I bet nobody. That's why there seems to be somebody using the port for  
something else.


Sven

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