MAL-2026-610

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Import Source

https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/snapshot-date/MAL-2026-610.json

JSON Data

https://api.osv.dev/v1/vulns/MAL-2026-610

Published

2026-01-30T19:09:41Z

Modified

2026-01-30T21:09:23.389402Z

Summary

Malicious code in snapshot-date (PyPI)

Details

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Source: kam193 (8e86008d35e5f11e68c465940563127cdc9ba1d4b2963f092914bf8e9ce2587b)

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

{
    "malicious-packages-origins": [
        {
            "id": "pypi/2025-02-alicloud-client/snapshot-date",
            "import_time": "2026-01-30T19:43:58.384035858Z",
            "source": "kam193",
            "versions": [
                "1.0.0",
                "1.0.1",
                "1.0.2",
                "1.0.3"
            ],
            "modified_time": "2026-01-30T19:09:41.017554Z",
            "sha256": "8e86008d35e5f11e68c465940563127cdc9ba1d4b2963f092914bf8e9ce2587b"
        }
    ],
    "iocs": {
        "urls": [
            "https://api.checktimeserver.org/",
            "https://api.aliyun-sdk-requests.xyz/"
        ],
        "domains": [
            "checktimeserver.org",
            "aliyun-sdk-requests.xyz",
            "api.jumpservercdn.com",
            "jumpservercdn.com"
        ]
    }
}

References

Credits

- Kamil Mańkowski (kam193) - REPORTER
- - https://github.com/kam193
  - https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/

Affected packages

PyPI / snapshot-date

Package

Name: snapshot-date; View open source insights on deps.dev
Purl: pkg:pypi/snapshot-date

Affected ranges

Affected versions

1.*

1.0.0

1.0.1

1.0.2

1.0.3

Database specific

source

"https://github.com/ossf/malicious-packages/blob/main/osv/malicious/pypi/snapshot-date/MAL-2026-610.json"