diff --git a/lib/pdf/reader/buffer.rb b/lib/pdf/reader/buffer.rb
index 69062ee4..8fe4fc95 100644
--- a/lib/pdf/reader/buffer.rb
+++ b/lib/pdf/reader/buffer.rb
@@ -152,10 +152,30 @@ def token
     #: () -> Integer
     def find_first_xref_offset
       check_size_is_non_zero
-      @io.seek(-TRAILING_BYTECOUNT, IO::SEEK_END) rescue @io.seek(0)
-      data = @io.read(TRAILING_BYTECOUNT)
 
-      raise MalformedPDFError, "PDF does not contain EOF marker" if data.nil?
+      # Skip trailing null bytes to find the effective end of the PDF.
+      # Some generators (e.g. Atos/Fonet) append thousands of null bytes
+      # after %%EOF. Scan backwards in chunks so a file padded with a huge
+      # run of nulls doesn't turn into a per-byte seek+read loop.
+      @io.seek(0, IO::SEEK_END)
+      end_pos = @io.pos
+
+      while end_pos > 0
+        chunk_size = [TRAILING_BYTECOUNT, end_pos].min
+        @io.seek(end_pos - chunk_size)
+        chunk = @io.read(chunk_size)
+        if chunk && (idx = chunk.rindex(/[^\x00]/))
+          end_pos = end_pos - chunk_size + idx + 1
+          break
+        end
+        end_pos -= chunk_size
+      end
+
+      start_pos = [end_pos - TRAILING_BYTECOUNT, 0].max
+      @io.seek(start_pos)
+      data = @io.read(end_pos - start_pos)
+
+      raise MalformedPDFError, "PDF does not contain EOF marker" if data.nil? || data.empty?
 
       # the PDF 1.7 spec (section #3.4) says that EOL markers can be either \r, \n, or both.
       lines = data.split(/[\n\r]+/).reverse
diff --git a/spec/data/trailing_null_bytes.pdf b/spec/data/trailing_null_bytes.pdf
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..ad3f0424
Binary files /dev/null and b/spec/data/trailing_null_bytes.pdf differ
diff --git a/spec/integrity.yml b/spec/integrity.yml
index 957652c7..f71414d1 100644
--- a/spec/integrity.yml
+++ b/spec/integrity.yml
@@ -449,6 +449,9 @@ data/tounicode-wrong-type-indirect.pdf:
 data/tounicode-wrong-type.pdf:
   :bytes: 12219
   :md5: 0be721e975bc8ec21eae829e0cddc1af
+data/trailing_null_bytes.pdf:
+  :bytes: 67721
+  :md5: 6b9b6375ca194fdf8687a44130c54df2
 data/truetype-arial.pdf:
   :bytes: 1387
   :md5: 2b3e4ff85b618d1f4c6b3b5df2631ab0
diff --git a/spec/reader/buffer_spec.rb b/spec/reader/buffer_spec.rb
index 9e730efc..cfe340db 100644
--- a/spec/reader/buffer_spec.rb
+++ b/spec/reader/buffer_spec.rb
@@ -631,6 +631,24 @@
       expect(buffer.find_first_xref_offset).to eql(145)
     end
   end
+
+  context "trailing_null_bytes.pdf (null bytes after the EOF marker)" do
+    it "finds the first xref offset" do
+      file   = File.new pdf_spec_file("trailing_null_bytes")
+      buffer = PDF::Reader::Buffer.new file
+
+      expect(buffer.find_first_xref_offset).to eql(145)
+    end
+  end
+
+  context "when the file is nothing but null bytes" do
+    it "raises a MalformedPDFError" do
+      io     = StringIO.new("\x00" * 10_000)
+      buffer = PDF::Reader::Buffer.new(io)
+
+      expect { buffer.find_first_xref_offset }.to raise_error(PDF::Reader::MalformedPDFError)
+    end
+  end
 end
 
 describe PDF::Reader::Buffer, "read method" do