diff --git a/syft/pkg/cataloger/golang/parse_go_binary.go b/syft/pkg/cataloger/golang/parse_go_binary.go
index bf3a6d722eb0..91957f19d816 100644
--- a/syft/pkg/cataloger/golang/parse_go_binary.go
+++ b/syft/pkg/cataloger/golang/parse_go_binary.go
@@ -196,7 +196,7 @@ func (c *goBinaryCataloger) makeGoMainPackage(resolver file.Resolver, mod *exten
 // this is checking for (.L)? because at least one binary seems to have \xA0L preceding the version string, but for some reason
 // this is unable to be matched by the regex here as \x00\xA0L;
 // the only thing that seems to work is to just look for version strings following both \x00 and \x00.L for now
-var semverPattern = regexp.MustCompile(`\x00(.L)?(?P<version>v?(\d+\.\d+\.\d+[-\w]*[+\w]*))\x00`)
+var semverPattern = regexp.MustCompile(`(\x00|\x{FFFD})(.L)?(?P<version>v?(\d+\.\d+\.\d+[-\w]*[+\w]*))\x00`)
 
 func (c *goBinaryCataloger) findMainModuleVersion(metadata *pkg.GolangBinaryBuildinfoEntry, gbs pkg.KeyValues, reader io.ReadSeekCloser) string {
 	vcsVersion, hasVersion := gbs.Get("vcs.revision")
diff --git a/syft/pkg/cataloger/golang/parse_go_binary_test.go b/syft/pkg/cataloger/golang/parse_go_binary_test.go
index 75659ae65daf..b2af3ffca851 100644
--- a/syft/pkg/cataloger/golang/parse_go_binary_test.go
+++ b/syft/pkg/cataloger/golang/parse_go_binary_test.go
@@ -1305,6 +1305,14 @@ func Test_extractVersionFromContents(t *testing.T) {
 			contents: strings.NewReader("\x0e\x74\x5a\x3b\x00\x00\xa0\x4cv1.9.5\x00\x00"),
 			want:     "v1.9.5",
 		},
+		{
+			// 06168a34: f98f b0be 332e 312e 3200 0000 636f 6d74  ....3.1.2...comt from /usr/local/bin/traefik
+			// in traefik:v3.1.2@sha256:3f92eba47bd4bfda91d47b72d16fef2d7ae15db61a92b2057cf0cb389f8938f6
+			// TODO: eventually use something for managing snippets, similar to what's used with binary classifier tests
+			name:     "parse traefik version",
+			contents: strings.NewReader("\xf9\x8f\xb0\xbe\x33\x2e\x31\x2e\x32\x00\x00\x00\x63\x6f\x6d\x74"),
+			want:     "3.1.2",
+		},
 	}
 	for _, tt := range tests {
 		t.Run(tt.name, func(t *testing.T) {