{"id":"MAL-2025-191687","summary":"Malicious code in awscloud-clients-core (PyPI)","details":"\n---\n_-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_\n\n## Source: kam193 (e27bf5713a8bafdbcc34c43b98cc4d5e9c5d03e4952f788b12ff9749081b22d2)\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":"2026-01-30T21:09:24.295307Z","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":[{"source":"kam193","id":"pypi/2025-02-alicloud-client/awscloud-clients-core","import_time":"2025-12-02T22:30:54.961858033Z","modified_time":"2025-02-25T18:18:21Z","ranges":[{"events":[{"introduced":"0"}],"type":"ECOSYSTEM"}],"sha256":"fd72377bd44ac94d4e846424cd73135390d9f22f8b2ff46ace3366df66b37334"},{"modified_time":"2025-02-25T18:18:21Z","ranges":[{"events":[{"introduced":"0"}],"type":"ECOSYSTEM"}],"sha256":"e27bf5713a8bafdbcc34c43b98cc4d5e9c5d03e4952f788b12ff9749081b22d2","source":"kam193","id":"pypi/2025-02-alicloud-client/awscloud-clients-core","import_time":"2025-12-02T23:07:18.00135422Z"},{"sha256":"431a746ec653df45fd3ffcac72ffcec401fa4cc75d0046b99e3a02bca0da3502","source":"kam193","versions":["1.0.0"],"id":"pypi/2025-02-alicloud-client/awscloud-clients-core","import_time":"2025-12-10T21:38:57.303156246Z","modified_time":"2025-02-25T18:18:21Z"},{"import_time":"2026-01-30T19:43:58.380351346Z","modified_time":"2025-02-25T18:18:21Z","sha256":"80dfc7acb89d20b896525731f095fbfe0df12881a07b5af4462637d0ae541b63","source":"kam193","versions":["1.0.0"],"id":"pypi/2025-02-alicloud-client/awscloud-clients-core"}]},"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/awscloud-clients-core"}],"affected":[{"package":{"name":"awscloud-clients-core","ecosystem":"PyPI","purl":"pkg:pypi/awscloud-clients-core"},"versions":["1.0.0"],"database_specific":{"source":"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/awscloud-clients-core/MAL-2025-191687.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"}]}