{"id":"MAL-2025-191676","summary":"Malicious code in alicloud-client (PyPI)","details":"\n---\n_-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_\n\n## Source: kam193 (6366aa8c2eff918da0f1cc2118a026e749592f71bebbe81215877575b9593c6a)\nThis campaign is built from two parts:\n1) packages named like time-check-server, snapshot-photo contain an innocent-looking code that sends \"date\" to a remote server,\n2) packages named like alicloud-client are clones of legit aliyun-python-sdk-core package, with a small change in the client.py code, where it imports the time-check-server and calls it, but instead of a date, the credentials to the cloud are exfiltrated. There are also variations with AWS clients\n\nApparently, the campaign started at least 2 years ago with the snapshot-photo package containing the same functionality as the newer time-check-server (see https://github.com/pypi-data/pypi-mirror-238/blob/code/packages/snapshot-photo/snapshot_photo-0.0.3-py3-none-any.whl/snapshot_photo/date_format.py).\n\n\n---\n\nCategory: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.\n\n\nCampaign: 2025-02-alicloud-client\n\n\nReasons (based on the campaign):\n\n\n - clones-real-package\n\n\n - action-hidden-in-lib-usage\n\n\n - The malicious code is intentionally included in a dependency of the package\n\n\n - exfiltration-cloud-tokens\n","modified":"2026-01-30T21:09:25.171061Z","published":"2025-02-25T18:18:21Z","database_specific":{"iocs":{"domains":["checktimeserver.org","aliyun-sdk-requests.xyz"],"urls":["https://api.checktimeserver.org/","https://api.aliyun-sdk-requests.xyz/"]},"malicious-packages-origins":[{"id":"pypi/2025-02-alicloud-client/alicloud-client","import_time":"2025-12-02T22:30:54.898147865Z","modified_time":"2025-02-25T18:18:21Z","ranges":[{"events":[{"introduced":"0"}],"type":"ECOSYSTEM"}],"sha256":"193d791d6350ebf0e5200169f40cba80e114e1998a27f672edf72fb74fb34d9d","source":"kam193"},{"id":"pypi/2025-02-alicloud-client/alicloud-client","import_time":"2025-12-02T23:07:17.942008386Z","modified_time":"2025-02-25T18:18:21Z","ranges":[{"events":[{"introduced":"0"}],"type":"ECOSYSTEM"}],"sha256":"6366aa8c2eff918da0f1cc2118a026e749592f71bebbe81215877575b9593c6a","source":"kam193"},{"modified_time":"2025-02-25T18:18:21Z","sha256":"8401e8ad0f6a4aa28f280479726963d4c59dcc30d2f06fe1fc67fe70dfe24e5f","source":"kam193","versions":["1.0.0","1.0.1","1.0.2"],"id":"pypi/2025-02-alicloud-client/alicloud-client","import_time":"2025-12-10T21:38:57.248674375Z"},{"versions":["1.0.0","1.0.1","1.0.2"],"id":"pypi/2025-02-alicloud-client/alicloud-client","import_time":"2026-01-30T19:43:58.378402571Z","modified_time":"2025-02-25T18:18:21Z","sha256":"bf299f135b8b88d83c9db8576360352984af4bbbe5071c4d4460507974301959","source":"kam193"}]},"references":[{"type":"WEB","url":"https://github.com/pypi-data/pypi-mirror-238/blob/code/packages/snapshot-photo/snapshot_photo-0.0.3-py3-none-any.whl/snapshot_photo/date_format.py"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://x.com/ReversingLabs/status/1900198602242204003"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://thehackernews.com/2025/03/malicious-pypi-packages-stole-cloud.html"},{"type":"WEB","url":"https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/alicloud-client"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"alicloud-client","ecosystem":"PyPI","purl":"pkg:pypi/alicloud-client"},"versions":["1.0.0","1.0.1","1.0.2"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/alicloud-client/MAL-2025-191676.json"}}],"schema_version":"1.7.3","credits":[{"name":"Kamil Mańkowski (kam193)","contact":["https://github.com/kam193","https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/"]},{"name":"Kamil Mańkowski (kam193)","contact":["https://github.com/kam193","https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/"],"type":"REPORTER"}]}