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Unexpected Ports Opened

Posted on November 11, 2013

I was wondering why the following ports are open on my VM?

135/tcp filtered msrpc 139/tcp filtered netbios-ssn 445/tcp filtered microsoft-ds 4444/tcp filtered krb524 12345/tcp filtered netbus



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That is most likely because you have samba running.

actually I don’t have any process running smb or nmbd. I also checked listening ports but did not find any.

Use lsof to find the process(es) that has the ports open; <br> <br># lsof -i TCP:135 <br> <br>You may need to install lsof (list open files)

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