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      ],
      "name": "Kamil Ma\u0144kowski (kam193)"
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      "name": "Kamil Ma\u0144kowski (kam193)",
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        "modified_time": "2025-03-28T13:05:14Z",
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        "import_time": "2025-09-26T11:06:09.882703014Z",
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        "modified_time": "2025-02-25T18:18:21Z",
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        "source": "kam193"
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        "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",
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      {
        "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",
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  "details": "\n---\n_-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_\n\n## Source: kam193 (4900ca27e14ecb6f022a740bd420fa046084355344379dd21a2b59c53d1c95f1)\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-2025-2929",
  "modified": "2026-01-30T19:45:45Z",
  "published": "2025-02-25T18:18:21Z",
  "references": [
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://x.com/ReversingLabs/status/1900198602242204003"
    },
    {
      "type": "ADVISORY",
      "url": "https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PYTHON-ACLOUDCLIENT-12201342"
    },
    {
      "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://thehackernews.com/2025/03/malicious-pypi-packages-stole-cloud.html"
    },
    {
      "type": "WEB",
      "url": "https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/acloud-client"
    }
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  "schema_version": "1.7.4",
  "summary": "Malicious code in acloud-client (PyPI)"
}