mal-2025-191672
Vulnerability from ossf_malicious_packages
Published
2025-02-25 18:18
Modified
2025-12-11 09:27
Summary
Malicious code in acloud-client-uses (PyPI)
Details

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Source: kam193 (23487ce28601ae00fc60455a6e324818c68a8a00b3a3d17f7356853ca7eedee5)

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


{
  "affected": [
    {
      "package": {
        "ecosystem": "PyPI",
        "name": "acloud-client-uses"
      },
      "versions": [
        "1.0.0"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "credits": [
    {
      "contact": [
        "https://github.com/kam193",
        "https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/"
      ],
      "name": "Kamil Ma\u0144kowski (kam193)"
    },
    {
      "contact": [
        "https://github.com/kam193",
        "https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/"
      ],
      "name": "Kamil Ma\u0144kowski (kam193)",
      "type": "REPORTER"
    }
  ],
  "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/acloud-client-uses",
        "import_time": "2025-12-02T22:30:54.882183004Z",
        "modified_time": "2025-02-25T18:18:21Z",
        "ranges": [
          {
            "events": [
              {
                "introduced": "0"
              }
            ],
            "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
          }
        ],
        "sha256": "da81ee5e5c815bea11600594497449da7a19a3b0f520242b153e18717c884f46",
        "source": "kam193"
      },
      {
        "id": "pypi/2025-02-alicloud-client/acloud-client-uses",
        "import_time": "2025-12-02T23:07:17.924967832Z",
        "modified_time": "2025-02-25T18:18:21Z",
        "ranges": [
          {
            "events": [
              {
                "introduced": "0"
              }
            ],
            "type": "ECOSYSTEM"
          }
        ],
        "sha256": "23487ce28601ae00fc60455a6e324818c68a8a00b3a3d17f7356853ca7eedee5",
        "source": "kam193"
      },
      {
        "id": "pypi/2025-02-alicloud-client/acloud-client-uses",
        "import_time": "2025-12-10T21:38:57.234736845Z",
        "modified_time": "2025-02-25T18:18:21Z",
        "sha256": "f6732ff9e717747e0abc42cdf71dce4ed4d06cc15ab5b974638bc388caa0eeb2",
        "source": "kam193",
        "versions": [
          "1.0.0"
        ]
      }
    ]
  },
  "details": "\n---\n_-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_\n\n## Source: kam193 (23487ce28601ae00fc60455a6e324818c68a8a00b3a3d17f7356853ca7eedee5)\nThis campaign is built from two parts:\n1) packages named like time-check-server, snapshot-photo contain an innocent-looking code that sends \"date\" to a remote server,\n2) 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\n\nApparently, 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).\n\n\n---\n\nCategory: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers.\n\n\nCampaign: 2025-02-alicloud-client\n\n\nReasons (based on the campaign):\n\n\n - clones-real-package\n\n\n - action-hidden-in-lib-usage\n\n\n - The malicious code is intentionally included in a dependency of the package\n\n\n - exfiltration-cloud-tokens\n",
  "id": "MAL-2025-191672",
  "modified": "2025-12-11T09:27:52Z",
  "published": "2025-02-25T18:18:21Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "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"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://x.com/ReversingLabs/status/1900198602242204003"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://thehackernews.com/2025/03/malicious-pypi-packages-stole-cloud.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/acloud-client-uses"
    }
  ],
  "schema_version": "1.7.4",
  "summary": "Malicious code in acloud-client-uses (PyPI)"
}


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