MAL-2025-2950

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Import Source
https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/credential-python-sdk/MAL-2025-2950.json
JSON Data
https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MAL-2025-2950
Aliases
  • SNYK-PYTHON-CREDENTIALPYTHONSDK-12201349
Published
2025-02-25T18:18:21Z
Modified
2026-03-19T12:52:03Z
Summary
Malicious code in credential-python-sdk (PyPI)
Details

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Source: kam193 (6c6598ac9c321af3b0526ddceb5ffc6e78d593e0c3e6bdd259b06c0792705cc6)

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-2025-01948",
            "import_time": "2025-03-31T07:07:05.109232043Z",
            "modified_time": "2025-03-28T13:05:30Z",
            "sha256": "98c6376a072729cd054d1650147ae1f38ba5ebe4182ccabc085ff7689a392f5e",
            "source": "reversing-labs",
            "versions": [
                "0.0.3"
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "RLUA-2025-04755",
            "import_time": "2025-09-26T11:06:10.062827406Z",
            "modified_time": "2025-09-26T09:13:51Z",
            "sha256": "ccb75be9c570fba4a5794bea20205e89e2d4e5f8d24d654e0cb08c6729ee1435",
            "source": "reversing-labs"
        },
        {
            "id": "pypi/2025-02-alicloud-client/credential-python-sdk",
            "import_time": "2025-12-02T22:30:55.073490315Z",
            "modified_time": "2025-02-25T18:18:21Z",
            "ranges": [
                {
                    "events": [
                        {
                            "introduced": "0"
                        }
                    ],
                    "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
                }
            ],
            "sha256": "ac81bbfc5a381702150076db0a7049386690e545f3fede3d4247fc6deb4b331b",
            "source": "kam193"
        },
        {
            "id": "pypi/2025-02-alicloud-client/credential-python-sdk",
            "import_time": "2025-12-02T23:07:18.083452712Z",
            "modified_time": "2025-02-25T18:18:21Z",
            "ranges": [
                {
                    "events": [
                        {
                            "introduced": "0"
                        }
                    ],
                    "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
                }
            ],
            "sha256": "6c6598ac9c321af3b0526ddceb5ffc6e78d593e0c3e6bdd259b06c0792705cc6",
            "source": "kam193"
        },
        {
            "id": "pypi/2025-02-alicloud-client/credential-python-sdk",
            "import_time": "2025-12-10T21:38:57.375200862Z",
            "modified_time": "2025-02-25T18:18:21Z",
            "sha256": "85b5099f9045b317522307daffade9a3a513dbb8ab32822650127dc4153a10c0",
            "source": "kam193",
            "versions": [
                "0.0.3"
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "pypi/2025-02-alicloud-client/credential-python-sdk",
            "import_time": "2026-01-30T19:43:58.38132399Z",
            "modified_time": "2025-02-25T18:18:21Z",
            "sha256": "7331b7ac44dd9fdd42c32d504cb93a5b312525d3c1377d5e5f9d4cdd4a9ecaf8",
            "source": "kam193",
            "versions": [
                "0.0.3"
            ]
        },
        {
            "id": "RLUA-2026-00227",
            "import_time": "2026-03-19T12:19:36.426049782Z",
            "modified_time": "2026-03-18T12:12:52Z",
            "sha256": "47a2cddf6cc4f54b884fd20b538573846712a9a95bd112b853c89c5b5b024b52",
            "source": "reversing-labs"
        }
    ]
}
References
Credits

Affected packages

PyPI / credential-python-sdk

Package

Name
credential-python-sdk
View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl
pkg:pypi/credential-python-sdk

Affected ranges

Affected versions

0.*
0.0.3

Database specific

source 
"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/credential-python-sdk/MAL-2025-2950.json"