tclients-sdk

{"modified":"2026-01-30T19:45:46Z","published":"2025-02-25T18:18:21Z","schema_version":"1.7.4","id":"MAL-2025-191886","summary":"Malicious code in tclients-sdk (PyPI)","details":"\n---\n_-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_\n\n## Source: kam193 (7e1b954f34e0b9f14cca18b47f856a049c06e3503f3186ec2ae4db717a1298a8)\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":"tclients-sdk"},"versions":["1.0.0","1.0.2"]}],"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/tclients-sdk"}],"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":"d07de62cdfc7f18bf930135838de41eb2f32fc6cf68fe77df5ee18918af3d590","import_time":"2025-12-02T22:30:55.627360494Z","id":"pypi/2025-02-alicloud-client/tclients-sdk","modified_time":"2025-02-25T18:18:21Z","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}]},{"source":"kam193","sha256":"7e1b954f34e0b9f14cca18b47f856a049c06e3503f3186ec2ae4db717a1298a8","import_time":"2025-12-02T23:07:18.668747607Z","id":"pypi/2025-02-alicloud-client/tclients-sdk","modified_time":"2025-02-25T18:18:21Z","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}]},{"source":"kam193","sha256":"8e31482d38ed4374a168afb21bb9a651032e92ff8684c717612a648850193b72","import_time":"2025-12-10T21:38:57.855262924Z","id":"pypi/2025-02-alicloud-client/tclients-sdk","modified_time":"2025-02-25T18:18:21Z","versions":["1.0.0","1.0.2"]},{"source":"kam193","sha256":"a0837ba7ca1a0e088278312a893a03ebcff07e470afdbbbbfcdee9242cf61f6a","import_time":"2026-01-30T19:43:58.385935861Z","id":"pypi/2025-02-alicloud-client/tclients-sdk","modified_time":"2025-02-25T18:18:21Z","versions":["1.0.0","1.0.2"]}]}}