Why is the TCP port 6666 and port 7777 open in the LTE router?

1.9K    Asked by AmyAvery in Cyber Security , Asked on Apr 6, 2022

I've got a LTE wifi router(JioFi 2) and there's port 6666 and 7777 are open.

scan result,

PORT     STATE SERVICE

53/tcp   open  domain

80/tcp   open  http

6666/tcp open  

7777/tcp open  

I can understand why port 53 and 80 are open, but why 6666 and 7777 ? What are they doing there ? The device is made by Haier, which is accused many times of shipping devices with preinstalled malwares.

So my main question is how can I go deeper into this issue ?

Answered by Amelia Arnold

Port 7777/tcp can be used by: iChat server file transfer proxy or Oracle Cluster File System 2 or even games (Ultima Online, Active Worlds). Same for port 6666 - this one is often used for relay chat, but can indeed be used by a lot of malware too. So it's not the port itself that is the problem (or it's current state). You must analyse the traffic on that port when the device is in normal functionality mode in order to determine if there is something bad sent through there.



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