acloud-client-uses

{"modified":"2026-01-30T19:45:45Z","published":"2025-02-25T18:18:21Z","schema_version":"1.7.4","id":"MAL-2025-191672","summary":"Malicious code in acloud-client-uses (PyPI)","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","affected":[{"package":{"ecosystem":"PyPI","name":"acloud-client-uses"},"versions":["1.0.0"]}],"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"}],"credits":[{"name":"Kamil Mańkowski (kam193)","contact":["https://github.com/kam193","https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/"]},{"name":"Kamil Mańkowski (kam193)","type":"REPORTER","contact":["https://github.com/kam193","https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/"]}],"database_specific":{"iocs":{"domains":["checktimeserver.org","aliyun-sdk-requests.xyz"],"urls":["https://api.checktimeserver.org/","https://api.aliyun-sdk-requests.xyz/"]},"malicious-packages-origins":[{"source":"kam193","sha256":"da81ee5e5c815bea11600594497449da7a19a3b0f520242b153e18717c884f46","import_time":"2025-12-02T22:30:54.882183004Z","id":"pypi/2025-02-alicloud-client/acloud-client-uses","modified_time":"2025-02-25T18:18:21Z","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}]},{"source":"kam193","sha256":"23487ce28601ae00fc60455a6e324818c68a8a00b3a3d17f7356853ca7eedee5","import_time":"2025-12-02T23:07:17.924967832Z","id":"pypi/2025-02-alicloud-client/acloud-client-uses","modified_time":"2025-02-25T18:18:21Z","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}]},{"source":"kam193","sha256":"f6732ff9e717747e0abc42cdf71dce4ed4d06cc15ab5b974638bc388caa0eeb2","import_time":"2025-12-10T21:38:57.234736845Z","id":"pypi/2025-02-alicloud-client/acloud-client-uses","modified_time":"2025-02-25T18:18:21Z","versions":["1.0.0"]},{"source":"kam193","sha256":"c8afa7845eb5e79a9a8a232fd8bc000a02408bfc4506bdbd93c27a844b13b12e","import_time":"2026-01-30T19:43:58.374560425Z","id":"pypi/2025-02-alicloud-client/acloud-client-uses","modified_time":"2025-02-25T18:18:21Z","versions":["1.0.0"]}]}}