“Failed to Add Pass An error occurred while adding the pass to Wallet. Please try again later.”
Brave on latest iOS. Lockdown mode enabled for 6 months.
There’s something not right about that PDF.
That user has been posting a lot of links to pdf’s every day hosted on wordpress platforms and more. I haven’t began scanning those yet.
Looking at all the behavioural analysis on VT makes it look like malware, but considering my lockdown iOS was being weird, this PDF is making me worry that it’s some sort of cross platform malware capable of attacking both Windows and iOS - which I have never heard malware being able to do before.
I am super curious of how this PDF behaves on MacOS, Linux and Android now but it seems VT only executes it in a Windows environment.
I could be so wrong about this, but if I am not, then this would be rather serious indeed for a lot of HN users.
It would be even more serious for the Usenix Security conference that posted the paper!
I wouldn’t even know where to start in looking at that PDF for some sort of iOS exploit payload, my guess is it would be extremely difficult to find (if it exists).
There is also your non-reproducible report that the PDF was incorrectly loaded as an Apple Wallet pass, which would require a web server MIME type of:
application/vnd.apple.pkpassThat's a pre-pub PDF hosted by the Usenix Security 24 conference, which takes place in two weeks. If a respected 30-year old security conference is posting hostile PDFs, that would be newsworthy.
> VirusTotal behavior analysis
What did it say exactly? Just tried a VT scan and it reported a score of 0 out of 95 (green), with zero detailed findings. That was the only/first/last submission of the URL, https://www.virustotal.com/gui/url/f7259d6da00636ec8632741d3...
> That user has been posting a lot of links to pdf’s every day hosted on wordpress platforms and more
Examples, please? I posted the Usenix Security paper. A quick scan of my submissions shows no PDFs in the last two weeks, and one other PDF in the last day, hosted on HP.com.