Port Map & Exploitation
A practical guide to network ports, common services running, and techniques used to perform a port exploit during real-world penetration tests.
Port 8443 – HTTPS (Alternative HTTPS Port for Admin Consoles & SSL-VPN)Port 8888 – Jupyter Notebook and Alt-HTTP Dev Servers (Jupyter, Cloud IDEs, HTTP Proxies)Port 9000 – PHP-FPM, SonarQube & Portainer (Multiplexed Dev/Infra Port)Port 9042 – Cassandra (CQL Native Transport)Port 9090 – Prometheus (Monitoring Server, Web UI & HTTP API)Port 9091 – Transmission (BitTorrent Web UI & RPC Interface)Port 9093 – Apache Kafka (Secured TLS/SASL Broker Listener, also Alertmanager)Port 9099 – Firebase Auth Emulator (Local Emulator Suite Authentication Service and Dev Tools)Port 9100 – JetDirect / AppSocket (Raw Print / PDL Data Stream)Port 9200 – Elasticsearch (HTTP REST API)