MAL-2025-191687

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Import Source

https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/awscloud-clients-core/MAL-2025-191687.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MAL-2025-191687

Published

2025-02-25T18:18:21Z

Modified

2026-01-30T21:09:24.295307Z

Summary

Malicious code in awscloud-clients-core (PyPI)

Details

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Source: kam193 (e27bf5713a8bafdbcc34c43b98cc4d5e9c5d03e4952f788b12ff9749081b22d2)

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": [
        {
            "id": "pypi/2025-02-alicloud-client/awscloud-clients-core",
            "modified_time": "2025-02-25T18:18:21Z",
            "import_time": "2025-12-02T22:30:54.961858033Z",
            "sha256": "fd72377bd44ac94d4e846424cd73135390d9f22f8b2ff46ace3366df66b37334",
            "ranges": [
                {
                    "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
                    "events": [
                        {
                            "introduced": "0"
                        }
                    ]
                }
            ],
            "source": "kam193"
        },
        {
            "id": "pypi/2025-02-alicloud-client/awscloud-clients-core",
            "modified_time": "2025-02-25T18:18:21Z",
            "import_time": "2025-12-02T23:07:18.00135422Z",
            "sha256": "e27bf5713a8bafdbcc34c43b98cc4d5e9c5d03e4952f788b12ff9749081b22d2",
            "ranges": [
                {
                    "type": "ECOSYSTEM",
                    "events": [
                        {
                            "introduced": "0"
                        }
                    ]
                }
            ],
            "source": "kam193"
        },
        {
            "versions": [
                "1.0.0"
            ],
            "id": "pypi/2025-02-alicloud-client/awscloud-clients-core",
            "modified_time": "2025-02-25T18:18:21Z",
            "import_time": "2025-12-10T21:38:57.303156246Z",
            "sha256": "431a746ec653df45fd3ffcac72ffcec401fa4cc75d0046b99e3a02bca0da3502",
            "source": "kam193"
        },
        {
            "versions": [
                "1.0.0"
            ],
            "id": "pypi/2025-02-alicloud-client/awscloud-clients-core",
            "modified_time": "2025-02-25T18:18:21Z",
            "import_time": "2026-01-30T19:43:58.380351346Z",
            "sha256": "80dfc7acb89d20b896525731f095fbfe0df12881a07b5af4462637d0ae541b63",
            "source": "kam193"
        }
    ]
}

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 / awscloud-clients-core

Package

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

Affected ranges

Affected versions

1.*

1.0.0

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/awscloud-clients-core/MAL-2025-191687.json"