MAL-2025-2929

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MAL-2025-2929

Summary: Malicious code in acloud-client (PyPI)

Details: Source: kam193 (4900ca27e14ecb6f022a740bd420fa046084355344379dd21a2b59c53d1c95f1) 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

References: https://x.com/ReversingLabs/status/1900198602242204003, https://security.snyk.io/vuln/SNYK-PYTHON-ACLOUDCLIENT-12201342, 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, https://thehackernews.com/2025/03/malicious-pypi-packages-stole-cloud.html, https://bad-packages.kam193.eu/pypi/package/acloud-client, https://thehackernews.com/2025/03/malicious-pypi-packages-stole-cloud.html