MAL-2025-191905

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Import Source
https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/time-service-checker/MAL-2025-191905.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MAL-2025-191905
Published
2025-02-25T18:18:21Z
Modified
2026-01-30T20:31:45.740104Z
Summary
Malicious code in time-service-checker (PyPI)
Details

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Source: kam193 (92ae5fc73fd7cc45d02ba02f6c3b667d155f681ba74262d66421edee5f19d237)

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 
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    "malicious-packages-origins": [
        {
            "sha256": "79994d24a60498e27f9bbf72effb0d0cb2406e366446b903c30076edbb65070e",
            "source": "kam193",
            "import_time": "2025-12-02T22:30:55.649551482Z",
            "id": "pypi/2025-02-alicloud-client/time-service-checker",
            "modified_time": "2025-02-25T18:18:21Z",
            "ranges": [
                {
                    "events": [
                        {
                            "introduced": "0"
                        }
                    ],
                    "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "sha256": "92ae5fc73fd7cc45d02ba02f6c3b667d155f681ba74262d66421edee5f19d237",
            "source": "kam193",
            "import_time": "2025-12-02T23:07:18.692257127Z",
            "id": "pypi/2025-02-alicloud-client/time-service-checker",
            "modified_time": "2025-02-25T18:18:21Z",
            "ranges": [
                {
                    "events": [
                        {
                            "introduced": "0"
                        }
                    ],
                    "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "modified_time": "2025-02-25T18:18:21Z",
            "source": "kam193",
            "import_time": "2025-12-10T21:38:57.877230456Z",
            "id": "pypi/2025-02-alicloud-client/time-service-checker",
            "versions": [
                "0.0.1"
            ],
            "sha256": "5293940a3178ed70ef6bb643446005120e00b8ca64e4267d93df5bd785b4f004"
        },
        {
            "modified_time": "2025-02-25T18:18:21Z",
            "source": "kam193",
            "import_time": "2026-01-30T19:43:58.402148279Z",
            "id": "pypi/2025-02-alicloud-client/time-service-checker",
            "versions": [
                "0.0.1"
            ],
            "sha256": "fd5348d5e58c45cf13fdf2939fa93da3623aef880258bf27c277be5a5f0a5818"
        }
    ],
    "iocs": {
        "urls": [
            "https://api.checktimeserver.org/",
            "https://api.aliyun-sdk-requests.xyz/"
        ],
        "domains": [
            "checktimeserver.org",
            "aliyun-sdk-requests.xyz"
        ]
    }
}
References
Credits

Affected packages

PyPI / time-service-checker

Package

Name
time-service-checker
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Purl
pkg:pypi/time-service-checker

Affected ranges

Affected versions

0.*
0.0.1

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/time-service-checker/MAL-2025-191905.json"