pypi · Malicious package advisory
Malwarealicloud-client
MAL-2025-191676
Malicious code in alicloud-client (PyPI)
Details
--- _-= Per source details. Do not edit below this line.=-_ ## Source: kam193 (6366aa8c2eff918da0f1cc2118a026e749592f71bebbe81215877575b9593c6a) This campaign is built from two parts: 1) packages named like time-check-server, snapshot-photo contain an innocent-looking code that sends "date" to a remote server, 2) 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 Apparently, 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). --- Category: MALICIOUS - The campaign has clearly malicious intent, like infostealers. Campaign: 2025-02-alicloud-client Reasons (based on the campaign): - clones-real-package - action-hidden-in-lib-usage - The malicious code is intentionally included in a dependency of the package - exfiltration-cloud-tokens
Compromised versions (3)
- 1.0.0
- 1.0.1
- 1.0.2
Any computer that installed or ran a compromised version should be considered fully compromised. Rotate every secret on that machine from a clean environment.