MAL-2025-191673

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Import Source

https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/acloud-clients/MAL-2025-191673.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MAL-2025-191673

Published

2025-02-25T18:18:21Z

Modified

2026-01-30T21:09:26.557241Z

Summary

Malicious code in acloud-clients (PyPI)

Details

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Source: kam193 (89813876cca364b0dffda624005d527aa3c9f54ea7ce20af8186faf8f374ba6f)

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

{
    "iocs": {
        "domains": [
            "checktimeserver.org",
            "aliyun-sdk-requests.xyz"
        ],
        "urls": [
            "https://api.checktimeserver.org/",
            "https://api.aliyun-sdk-requests.xyz/"
        ]
    },
    "malicious-packages-origins": [
        {
            "source": "kam193",
            "modified_time": "2025-02-25T18:18:21Z",
            "sha256": "46dfd1e4168fb5aa7e48693d252de6884b88a67b1be45600bcfbe294bb4ca0d3",
            "id": "pypi/2025-02-alicloud-client/acloud-clients",
            "ranges": [
                {
                    "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
                    "events": [
                        {
                            "introduced": "0"
                        }
                    ]
                }
            ],
            "import_time": "2025-12-02T22:30:54.883745413Z"
        },
        {
            "source": "kam193",
            "modified_time": "2025-02-25T18:18:21Z",
            "sha256": "89813876cca364b0dffda624005d527aa3c9f54ea7ce20af8186faf8f374ba6f",
            "id": "pypi/2025-02-alicloud-client/acloud-clients",
            "ranges": [
                {
                    "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
                    "events": [
                        {
                            "introduced": "0"
                        }
                    ]
                }
            ],
            "import_time": "2025-12-02T23:07:17.92706564Z"
        },
        {
            "versions": [
                "1.0.0",
                "1.0.1"
            ],
            "modified_time": "2025-02-25T18:18:21Z",
            "sha256": "c2c78daea9a1be9a06f2234d5bbf333f5bf4df0b6e0f45ac2a4ffaf62a1c42bc",
            "id": "pypi/2025-02-alicloud-client/acloud-clients",
            "source": "kam193",
            "import_time": "2025-12-10T21:38:57.236727746Z"
        },
        {
            "versions": [
                "1.0.0",
                "1.0.1"
            ],
            "modified_time": "2025-02-25T18:18:21Z",
            "sha256": "9f549adaca1f78175dd7ee0f6f2f4604888a320a1e61dd36b6064e8f85918a2f",
            "id": "pypi/2025-02-alicloud-client/acloud-clients",
            "source": "kam193",
            "import_time": "2026-01-30T19:43:58.376558602Z"
        }
    ]
}

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-clients

Package

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

Affected ranges

Affected versions

1.*

1.0.0

1.0.1

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/acloud-clients/MAL-2025-191673.json"