time-service-checker

{"modified":"2026-01-30T19:45:46Z","published":"2025-02-25T18:18:21Z","schema_version":"1.7.4","id":"MAL-2025-191905","summary":"Malicious code in time-service-checker (PyPI)","details":"\n---\n_-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_\n\n## Source: kam193 (92ae5fc73fd7cc45d02ba02f6c3b667d155f681ba74262d66421edee5f19d237)\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-service-checker"},"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-service-checker"}],"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":"79994d24a60498e27f9bbf72effb0d0cb2406e366446b903c30076edbb65070e","import_time":"2025-12-02T22:30:55.649551482Z","id":"pypi/2025-02-alicloud-client/time-service-checker","modified_time":"2025-02-25T18:18:21Z","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}]},{"source":"kam193","sha256":"92ae5fc73fd7cc45d02ba02f6c3b667d155f681ba74262d66421edee5f19d237","import_time":"2025-12-02T23:07:18.692257127Z","id":"pypi/2025-02-alicloud-client/time-service-checker","modified_time":"2025-02-25T18:18:21Z","ranges":[{"type":"ECOSYSTEM","events":[{"introduced":"0"}]}]},{"source":"kam193","sha256":"5293940a3178ed70ef6bb643446005120e00b8ca64e4267d93df5bd785b4f004","import_time":"2025-12-10T21:38:57.877230456Z","id":"pypi/2025-02-alicloud-client/time-service-checker","modified_time":"2025-02-25T18:18:21Z","versions":["0.0.1"]},{"source":"kam193","sha256":"fd5348d5e58c45cf13fdf2939fa93da3623aef880258bf27c277be5a5f0a5818","import_time":"2026-01-30T19:43:58.402148279Z","id":"pypi/2025-02-alicloud-client/time-service-checker","modified_time":"2025-02-25T18:18:21Z","versions":["0.0.1"]}]}}