Port 5646Ventureforth Mobile

TCP port 5646 is assigned to Ventureforth Mobile, a Ventureforth Inc. service with no broadly documented protocol behavior.

transport
tcp

single transport

in transit
cleartext

payload readable on path

assignment
official

registered with iana

risk
1/10

safe

lookups
0

rank 993 of 5,536 · top 18%

also known as vfmobile

Technical Details

what runs on :5646

Ventureforth Mobile is registered on port :5646 over tcp to Ventureforth Inc, assigned November 2011. We don't have a technical write-up for it beyond the IANA registry entry.

In nmap's internet-wide scan data this port is never observed open, so if it's open on your network it's more likely a custom or misconfigured service than the registered one.

find what's listening on :5646

this machine
# linux
sudo ss -tlpn 'sport = :5646'

# macos / bsd
sudo lsof -nP -i :5646

# windows (then: tasklist /FI "PID eq <pid>")
netstat -ano | findstr :5646
another host
nmap -sV -p T:5646 <host>

run it? the handshake, the implementations you meet in the wild and the flags that matter come from the engineers who do.

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Security Information

exposure of :5646

risk score

1/ 10safe

routine exposure. this port is rarely the way in on its own — keep it patched and logged and move on.

mobile averages 2.0 across 89 ports — this one sits 1.0 below.

in transit

cleartext

credentials and payloads are readable by anyone on path

assignment

official

registered with iana for this service — scanners fingerprint it by number

reachable over

tcp

every listening transport is another surface to filter at the edge

security overview

no security notes recorded for :5646 yet

known exploits, hardening advice, what a compromise looks like — suggest an edit if you know its exposure.

the 8 most looked-up other ports in mobile — 89 ports carry that label.

risk mix of the 8 listed

  • safe38%
  • caution63%

0 of 8 encrypted