Port 60805 — The Unassigned Port

What This Port Is

Port 60805 is unassigned. It has no official IANA registration, no RFC defining its use, no protocol it belongs to. ¹

It falls within the dynamic or ephemeral port range (49152–65535). ¹ This range exists for ports that are temporary, private, or automatically allocated by an operating system when an application needs a quick network connection and doesn't care which port number it gets.

What That Means

The dynamic range is like the back alley of the Internet's port system. Official ports are the front doors—everyone knows what runs there, what to expect, how to secure it. The dynamic range is where anything goes:

• A web server on your laptop might grab port 60805 for an incoming connection from a client
• A video conference app might use it for audio streaming
• Your system might automatically assign it to a temporary service
• And yes, malware might hide there

Known Uses for Port 60805

There are no legitimate, standardized uses for this specific port number.

However, port 60805 has been documented in malware analysis reports associated with Trojan.DownLoader34.3753, malware that uses this port range as part of its network communication. ² This malware injects code into system processes and creates Tor onion services—it's not something you want on your machine.

The security concern isn't that port 60805 is inherently dangerous. The concern is that if you see it listening on your system, it's probably not your legitimate application. Your browser doesn't hardcode port 60805. Your email client doesn't live there. If something is listening on this port, you should know what it is.

How to Check What's Listening

On Linux/Mac:

# See all listening ports and what owns them
sudo lsof -i :60805

# Or use netstat
netstat -tlnp | grep 60805

On Windows:

# Find what's using port 60805
netstat -ano | findstr :60805

# Then look up the process ID in Task Manager

If something is listening on port 60805 and you didn't put it there, investigate it. Check your running processes, search for the executable online, run a malware scan.

Why This Port System Matters

The port system works because most things have assigned numbers and known purposes. That creates security—firewalls can block suspicious ports, administrators can audit what's running, users can understand their network.

But the dynamic range had to exist. Operating systems needed a way to grab ports on the fly without negotiating with a central authority every time a connection needed to happen. That tradeoff created gaps. Unassigned ports became places where the unnamed could hide.

Port 60805 is one of tens of thousands of unassigned ports. Most of them are benign—just temporary rental agreements between your OS and an application that needed a number. But the fact that they're unassigned also means there's no baseline expectation of what should be there. That's a useful fact to remember when you see something listening on a port you've never heard of.