MAL-2025-191871

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Import Source
https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/snapshot-photo/MAL-2025-191871.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MAL-2025-191871
Published
2025-02-25T18:18:21Z
Modified
2026-01-30T21:09:23Z
Summary
Malicious code in snapshot-photo (PyPI)
Details

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Source: kam193 (61ed09e2fa2143dedd945c585d917ad8d7b55d7118e5093430b48c5c02d126f8)

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/snapshot_photo-0.0.3-py3-none-any.whl/snapshot_photo/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/snapshot-photo",
            "import_time": "2025-12-02T22:30:55.57989082Z",
            "modified_time": "2025-02-25T18:18:21Z",
            "ranges": [
                {
                    "events": [
                        {
                            "introduced": "0"
                        }
                    ],
                    "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
                }
            ],
            "sha256": "51f6cfdc6cf4953adad6f0d2eb04668ee7c505e7cbce7076c0313b8882e4d194",
            "source": "kam193"
        },
        {
            "id": "pypi/2025-02-alicloud-client/snapshot-photo",
            "import_time": "2025-12-02T23:07:18.624989132Z",
            "modified_time": "2025-02-25T18:18:21Z",
            "ranges": [
                {
                    "events": [
                        {
                            "introduced": "0"
                        }
                    ],
                    "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
                }
            ],
            "sha256": "61ed09e2fa2143dedd945c585d917ad8d7b55d7118e5093430b48c5c02d126f8",
            "source": "kam193"
        },
        {
            "id": "pypi/2025-02-alicloud-client/snapshot-photo",
            "import_time": "2025-12-10T21:38:57.820334119Z",
            "modified_time": "2025-02-25T18:18:21Z",
            "sha256": "bcf303eecb263c63c9b73015f4d18ad34711dbca624aa0f694e1e5a84366b05e",
            "source": "kam193",
            "versions": [
                "0.0.3"
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "pypi/2025-02-alicloud-client/snapshot-photo",
            "import_time": "2026-01-30T19:43:58.385026876Z",
            "modified_time": "2025-02-25T18:18:21Z",
            "sha256": "463110e779868c344aaa93b02eb68d58d4e45257b8c2ccdf8e17bf5ce3d2e44a",
            "source": "kam193",
            "versions": [
                "0.0.3"
            ]
        }
    ]
}
References
Credits

Affected packages

PyPI / snapshot-photo

Package

Name
snapshot-photo
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Purl
pkg:pypi/snapshot-photo

Affected ranges

Affected versions

0.*
0.0.3

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/snapshot-photo/MAL-2025-191871.json"