ITMS 9000: The binary you upload was invalid

Question

When I ran into this issue, my first thought was to search Stack Overflow for solution. I did the search, found several topics. But, unlike my issue, those posters got

Answer 1

Just spent a while on this also, my upload previously worked and managed to get through validation.

However, once up Apple would fail/reject the uploaded binary due to something similar to the below https://stackoverflow.com/questions/18952213/invalid-directory-name-your-app-contains-a-directory-name-that-is-already-rese#=

Upon retrying, later without making any modifications, rather then sucedding then failing after validation I started receiving an error exactly the same as the OP.

Fixing the framework reference issue, enabled me to succesfully upload.

So rather then uploading passing validation and then being rejected, it would not pass validation, and I give the same error, without any hints.

Hopefully this helps someone else.