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4242 tcp vrml Applications using this port:
CrashPlan Cloud Backup
Microsoft Application Center Remote Management services
Orthanc (open source DICOM server for medical imaging)
Rag Doll Kung Fu (TCP/UDP)
Reverse Battle Tetris
Quassel distributed IRC client

Virtual Hacking Machine (VHM) trojan

Nemog backdoor (discovered 2004.08.16) - a backdoor trojan horse that allows an infected computer to be used as an email relay and HTTP proxy, dropped by W32.Mydoom.Q@mm. It can use one of the following ports: 3306,4242,4646,4661,6565,8080

Stack-based buffer overflow in the parsePresentationContext function in storescp in DICOM dcmtk-3.6.0 and earlier allows remote attackers to cause a denial of service (segmentation fault) via a long string sent to TCP port 4242.
References: [CVE-2015-8979], [BID-94951], [XFDB-130495]

IANA registered for: VRML Multi User Systems
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4242 tcp trojan [trojan] Virtual Hacking Machine - VHM Trojans
4242 tcp VirtualHackingMachine [trojan] Virtual Hacking Machine - VHM SANS
4242-4299 tcp,udp vrml-multi-use Multi User Systems SANS
4242 vrml vrml-multi-use Multi User Systems Neophasis
4242 tcp threat Nemog Bekkoame
4242 tcp,udp This port number is widely used on the net for MUDs (Multi-User-Dungeons), a type of chat system. It is also frequently used as an example port in code demonstrations or as an alternate HTTP port. The reason this is so popular is becuase it repeats the number 42, a popular number among computer geeks. In Douglas Adams classic book "Hitch Hikers Guide to the Galaxy", the number "42" is the answer to life, the universe, and everything. o This port is used (TCP) for a remote admin Trojan called "Virtual Hacking Machine". o This port is used for configuration for the Payline e-commerce package. o Connectix VideoPhone uses this port for something. o IBM's version of UNIX, AIX, has a C++ source browser (part of IBM's CSet package) that listens at this port and is susceptable to a buffer overflow. Bekkoame
4200-4299 tcp,udp vrml-multi-use VRML Multi User Systems IANA
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by jonathanrb - 2013-02-15 13:31
Cloud backup software CrashPlan also uses TCP/4242 (and TCP/4243, but only locally between the client UI and service)

For more details, see: http://support.crashplan.com/doku.php/faq/network#what_ports_does_crashplan_use
(link valid on 2013-02-15)
by Levest28 - 2015-01-05 19:11
The online game "StarMade" uses port 4242 for connecting to and hosting servers, and will conflict with anything trying to use that port such as Crashplan as I've just figured out
by anonymous - 2017-03-22 12:18
Quassel IRC client's core also uses port 4242.
by anonymous - 2019-05-18 15:47
According to EC-Council, Microsoft Application Center Remote Management services uses 4242 as well.
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