MAL-2025-2929

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Import Source
https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/acloud-client/MAL-2025-2929.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MAL-2025-2929
Aliases
  • SNYK-PYTHON-ACLOUDCLIENT-12201342
Published
2025-02-25T18:18:21Z
Modified
2026-03-19T12:49:51Z
Summary
Malicious code in acloud-client (PyPI)
Details

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Source: kam193 (4900ca27e14ecb6f022a740bd420fa046084355344379dd21a2b59c53d1c95f1)

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": "RLMA-2025-01927",
            "import_time": "2025-03-31T07:07:04.279224028Z",
            "modified_time": "2025-03-28T13:05:14Z",
            "sha256": "8afb489b46a4e95c11871dd065c618b98b6ff82565c0c1b7decb2a0835c125e4",
            "source": "reversing-labs",
            "versions": [
                "1.0.0",
                "1.0.1"
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "RLUA-2025-04742",
            "import_time": "2025-09-26T11:06:09.882703014Z",
            "modified_time": "2025-09-26T09:13:42Z",
            "sha256": "a468d481d3efdbe0a84f9814bf6d236de3b81b2130c29d5ff2529d6bdb99136d",
            "source": "reversing-labs"
        },
        {
            "id": "pypi/2025-02-alicloud-client/acloud-client",
            "import_time": "2025-12-02T22:30:54.883075217Z",
            "modified_time": "2025-02-25T18:18:21Z",
            "ranges": [
                {
                    "events": [
                        {
                            "introduced": "0"
                        }
                    ],
                    "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
                }
            ],
            "sha256": "04172dc499bf944e284ffb4a9f4d39fd379030b2ecbf8eada5ba703de258c0c4",
            "source": "kam193"
        },
        {
            "id": "pypi/2025-02-alicloud-client/acloud-client",
            "import_time": "2025-12-02T23:07:17.926110867Z",
            "modified_time": "2025-02-25T18:18:21Z",
            "ranges": [
                {
                    "events": [
                        {
                            "introduced": "0"
                        }
                    ],
                    "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
                }
            ],
            "sha256": "4900ca27e14ecb6f022a740bd420fa046084355344379dd21a2b59c53d1c95f1",
            "source": "kam193"
        },
        {
            "id": "pypi/2025-02-alicloud-client/acloud-client",
            "import_time": "2025-12-10T21:38:57.235650788Z",
            "modified_time": "2025-02-25T18:18:21Z",
            "sha256": "e5991c849c24976979baaed6c5f337f0aaf2275d2cc990c5ad67490d51ac9b3c",
            "source": "kam193",
            "versions": [
                "1.0.0",
                "1.0.1"
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "pypi/2025-02-alicloud-client/acloud-client",
            "import_time": "2026-01-30T19:43:58.375637454Z",
            "modified_time": "2025-02-25T18:18:21Z",
            "sha256": "295499a062b9795f707cc8c78d8420d6681fbc0094cba06c6c4eda699f547b4e",
            "source": "kam193",
            "versions": [
                "1.0.0",
                "1.0.1"
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "RLUA-2026-00035",
            "import_time": "2026-03-19T12:19:19.889800859Z",
            "modified_time": "2026-03-18T12:10:42Z",
            "sha256": "b0498db0770a9f74815d771fada1ee0daa954ddf6f18d0bb13b6402d257de61c",
            "source": "reversing-labs"
        }
    ]
}
References
Credits

Affected packages

PyPI / acloud-client

Package

Name
acloud-client
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Purl
pkg:pypi/acloud-client

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-client/MAL-2025-2929.json"