time-check-server

{"modified":"2026-01-30T19:45:46Z","published":"2025-02-25T18:18:21Z","schema_version":"1.7.4","id":"MAL-2025-191900","summary":"Malicious code in time-check-server (PyPI)","details":"\n---\n_-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_\n\n## Source: kam193 (a5da6618a6f04ceb52acd56bc78e318cb7fbffa07ef3acc041729afe52428c44)\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":"time-check-server"},"versions":["0.0.1"]}],"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/time-check-server"}],"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":"2f2e240ba64e091984af722ee4bf49c4a8863c447eb67cb7ea7069a3d2afdbd3","import_time":"2025-12-02T22:30:55.646309664Z","id":"pypi/2025-02-alicloud-client/time-check-server","modified_time":"2025-02-25T18:18:21Z","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}]},{"source":"kam193","sha256":"a5da6618a6f04ceb52acd56bc78e318cb7fbffa07ef3acc041729afe52428c44","import_time":"2025-12-02T23:07:18.688625386Z","id":"pypi/2025-02-alicloud-client/time-check-server","modified_time":"2025-02-25T18:18:21Z","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}]},{"source":"kam193","sha256":"4e5eb3ea6d8f0f5d8378efaf0fe158a1825d191de164392316ab79724cb998a2","import_time":"2025-12-10T21:38:57.873213244Z","id":"pypi/2025-02-alicloud-client/time-check-server","modified_time":"2025-02-25T18:18:21Z","versions":["0.0.1"]},{"source":"kam193","sha256":"190aafe9975a78c45bdafc2bb25079ad22ac46aef08fb579c5c0adbfd7193739","import_time":"2026-01-30T19:43:58.389496342Z","id":"pypi/2025-02-alicloud-client/time-check-server","modified_time":"2025-02-25T18:18:21Z","versions":["0.0.1"]}]}}