MAL-2025-191672

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Import Source

https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/acloud-client-uses/MAL-2025-191672.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MAL-2025-191672

Published

2025-02-25T18:18:21Z

Modified

2026-01-30T21:09:22.158878Z

Summary

Malicious code in acloud-client-uses (PyPI)

Details

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Source: kam193 (23487ce28601ae00fc60455a6e324818c68a8a00b3a3d17f7356853ca7eedee5)

This campaign is built from two parts: 1) packages named like time-check-server, snapshot-photo contain an innocent-looking code that sends "date" to a remote server, 2) 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

Apparently, 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/snapshotphoto-0.0.3-py3-none-any.whl/snapshotphoto/date_format.py).

Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.

Campaign: 2025-02-alicloud-client

Reasons (based on the campaign):

clones-real-package
action-hidden-in-lib-usage
The malicious code is intentionally included in a dependency of the package
exfiltration-cloud-tokens

Database specific

{
    "malicious-packages-origins": [
        {
            "sha256": "da81ee5e5c815bea11600594497449da7a19a3b0f520242b153e18717c884f46",
            "source": "kam193",
            "modified_time": "2025-02-25T18:18:21Z",
            "id": "pypi/2025-02-alicloud-client/acloud-client-uses",
            "ranges": [
                {
                    "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
                    "events": [
                        {
                            "introduced": "0"
                        }
                    ]
                }
            ],
            "import_time": "2025-12-02T22:30:54.882183004Z"
        },
        {
            "sha256": "23487ce28601ae00fc60455a6e324818c68a8a00b3a3d17f7356853ca7eedee5",
            "source": "kam193",
            "modified_time": "2025-02-25T18:18:21Z",
            "id": "pypi/2025-02-alicloud-client/acloud-client-uses",
            "ranges": [
                {
                    "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
                    "events": [
                        {
                            "introduced": "0"
                        }
                    ]
                }
            ],
            "import_time": "2025-12-02T23:07:17.924967832Z"
        },
        {
            "sha256": "f6732ff9e717747e0abc42cdf71dce4ed4d06cc15ab5b974638bc388caa0eeb2",
            "source": "kam193",
            "modified_time": "2025-02-25T18:18:21Z",
            "id": "pypi/2025-02-alicloud-client/acloud-client-uses",
            "versions": [
                "1.0.0"
            ],
            "import_time": "2025-12-10T21:38:57.234736845Z"
        },
        {
            "sha256": "c8afa7845eb5e79a9a8a232fd8bc000a02408bfc4506bdbd93c27a844b13b12e",
            "source": "kam193",
            "modified_time": "2025-02-25T18:18:21Z",
            "id": "pypi/2025-02-alicloud-client/acloud-client-uses",
            "versions": [
                "1.0.0"
            ],
            "import_time": "2026-01-30T19:43:58.374560425Z"
        }
    ],
    "iocs": {
        "domains": [
            "checktimeserver.org",
            "aliyun-sdk-requests.xyz"
        ],
        "urls": [
            "https://api.checktimeserver.org/",
            "https://api.aliyun-sdk-requests.xyz/"
        ]
    }
}

References

Credits

- Kamil Mańkowski (kam193)
- - https://github.com/kam193
  - https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/
- Kamil Mańkowski (kam193) - REPORTER
- - https://github.com/kam193
  - https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/

Affected packages

PyPI / acloud-client-uses

Package

Name: acloud-client-uses; View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl: pkg:pypi/acloud-client-uses

Affected ranges

Affected versions

1.*

1.0.0

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/acloud-client-uses/MAL-2025-191672.json"