diff --git a/syft/pkg/cataloger/golang/parse_go_binary.go b/syft/pkg/cataloger/golang/parse_go_binary.go
index e44732364..8031cc65b 100644
--- a/syft/pkg/cataloger/golang/parse_go_binary.go
+++ b/syft/pkg/cataloger/golang/parse_go_binary.go
@@ -82,11 +82,12 @@ func (c *goBinaryCataloger) recordStdlibSymbols(coord file.Coordinates, symbols
 	c.stdlibSymbols[coord] = slices.Compact(merged)
 }
 
-// stdlibSymbolsFor returns the standard-library symbols recorded for a binary location.
+// stdlibSymbolsFor returns the standard-library symbols recorded for a binary location. It returns a copy
+// so callers cannot alias (and later mutate or race on) the map's internal slice.
 func (c *goBinaryCataloger) stdlibSymbolsFor(coord file.Coordinates) []string {
 	c.stdlibSymbolsMu.Lock()
 	defer c.stdlibSymbolsMu.Unlock()
-	return c.stdlibSymbols[coord]
+	return slices.Clone(c.stdlibSymbols[coord])
 }
 
 // parseGoBinary catalogs packages found in the "buildinfo" section of a binary built by the go compiler.
@@ -429,7 +430,7 @@ func getExperimentsFromVersion(version string) (string, []string) {
 	version, rest, ok := strings.Cut(version, " ")
 	if ok {
 		// Assume they may add more non-version chunks in the future, so only look for "X:".
-		for _, chunk := range strings.Split(rest, " ") {
+		for chunk := range strings.SplitSeq(rest, " ") {
 			if strings.HasPrefix(rest, "X:") {
 				csv := strings.TrimPrefix(chunk, "X:")
 				experiments = append(experiments, strings.Split(csv, ",")...)
diff --git a/syft/pkg/cataloger/golang/symbols.go b/syft/pkg/cataloger/golang/symbols.go
index 3b49d4c9f..d2dc244cd 100644
--- a/syft/pkg/cataloger/golang/symbols.go
+++ b/syft/pkg/cataloger/golang/symbols.go
@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ func getSymbols(r io.ReaderAt) (syms []binarySymbol, err error) {
 
 	seen := make(map[string]struct{})
 	for _, fn := range table.Funcs {
-		if fn.Sym == nil {
+		if fn.Sym == nil || isCompilerGeneratedName(fn.Name) {
 			continue
 		}
 		seen[fn.Name] = struct{}{}
@@ -79,8 +79,11 @@ func getSymbols(r io.ReaderAt) (syms []binarySymbol, err error) {
 // packagePathFromSymbolName derives the owning package import path from a fully qualified symbol name.
 // The package path is everything up to the first "." that follows the final "/" — e.g.
 // "path/filepath.IsLocal" -> "path/filepath" and "golang.org/x/net/html.(*Tokenizer).Next" ->
-// "golang.org/x/net/html". Returns "" when the name has no package-qualifying dot.
+// "golang.org/x/net/html". Returns "" when the name has no package-qualifying dot or is compiler-generated.
 func packagePathFromSymbolName(name string) string {
+	if isCompilerGeneratedName(name) {
+		return ""
+	}
 	slash := strings.LastIndex(name, "/")
 	dot := strings.IndexByte(name[slash+1:], '.')
 	if dot < 0 {
@@ -89,6 +92,15 @@ func packagePathFromSymbolName(name string) string {
 	return name[:slash+1+dot]
 }
 
+// isCompilerGeneratedName reports whether a symbol name was synthesized by the compiler or linker rather
+// than declared in Go source. These names use ':' or '..' (e.g. "type:.eq.*", "type..hash.*",
+// "go:string.*") — byte sequences that never appear in a real Go import path or identifier — so they
+// belong to no package and are dropped rather than mis-attributed (e.g. bucketed under a bogus "type"
+// stdlib package).
+func isCompilerGeneratedName(name string) bool {
+	return strings.Contains(name, ":") || strings.Contains(name, "..")
+}
+
 // funcNameTable returns every function name recorded in the pclntab's funcname table, including the
 // names of inlined functions that debug/gosym does not expose. It parses the pclntab header for the
 // Go 1.16+ layouts; on any unrecognized layout or out-of-bounds offset it returns nil (fail-soft), so
@@ -143,7 +155,7 @@ func funcNameTable(pclntab []byte) []string {
 	}
 
 	var names []string
-	for _, raw := range bytes.Split(pclntab[start:end], []byte{0}) {
+	for raw := range bytes.SplitSeq(pclntab[start:end], []byte{0}) {
 		if len(raw) == 0 {
 			continue
 		}
@@ -264,9 +276,6 @@ func moduleSymbols(symbols []binarySymbol, main *debug.Module, deps []*debug.Mod
 // "net/http", "runtime", "internal/abi"), which distinguishes it from module paths like
 // "github.com/foo/bar" whose leading element is a domain name.
 func isStandardImportPath(path string) bool {
-	first := path
-	if i := strings.Index(path, "/"); i >= 0 {
-		first = path[:i]
-	}
+	first, _, _ := strings.Cut(path, "/")
 	return first != "" && !strings.Contains(first, ".")
 }
diff --git a/syft/pkg/cataloger/golang/symbols_test.go b/syft/pkg/cataloger/golang/symbols_test.go
index 9c36e408c..b9569108f 100644
--- a/syft/pkg/cataloger/golang/symbols_test.go
+++ b/syft/pkg/cataloger/golang/symbols_test.go
@@ -1,6 +1,7 @@
 package golang
 
 import (
+	"debug/gosym"
 	"os"
 	"runtime"
 	"runtime/debug"
@@ -124,4 +125,65 @@ func Test_getSymbols(t *testing.T) {
 	}
 	assert.True(t, foundRuntime, "expected to find runtime.main symbol")
 	assert.True(t, foundTesting, "expected to find testing.tRunner symbol")
+
+	// the recovery loop relies on packagePathFromSymbolName, so confirm at least one recovered name is
+	// present that debug/gosym's table.Funcs does not surface directly (i.e. an inlined function).
+	require.True(t, hasInlinedOnlySymbol(t, exe, symbols), "expected to recover at least one inlined-only symbol")
+}
+
+// hasInlinedOnlySymbol reports whether syms contains a function name that is absent from the raw
+// debug/gosym function table for the same binary — i.e. a name that could only have come from the
+// funcname-table recovery path.
+func hasInlinedOnlySymbol(t *testing.T, exe string, syms []binarySymbol) bool {
+	t.Helper()
+
+	f, err := os.Open(exe)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+	defer f.Close()
+
+	pclntab, textStart, err := readPclntab(f)
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	table, err := gosym.NewTable(nil, gosym.NewLineTable(pclntab, textStart))
+	require.NoError(t, err)
+
+	gosymNames := make(map[string]struct{}, len(table.Funcs))
+	for _, fn := range table.Funcs {
+		gosymNames[fn.Name] = struct{}{}
+	}
+
+	for _, sym := range syms {
+		if _, ok := gosymNames[sym.name]; !ok {
+			return true
+		}
+	}
+	return false
+}
+
+func Test_packagePathFromSymbolName(t *testing.T) {
+	tests := []struct {
+		name     string
+		expected string
+	}{
+		{"path/filepath.IsLocal", "path/filepath"},
+		// pointer-receiver method
+		{"golang.org/x/net/html.(*Tokenizer).Next", "golang.org/x/net/html"},
+		// versioned (major-version-suffixed) module path
+		{"github.com/foo/bar/v2.Parse", "github.com/foo/bar/v2"},
+		{"github.com/foo/bar/v2.(*Client).Do", "github.com/foo/bar/v2"},
+		{"github.com/foo/bar.Parse.func1", "github.com/foo/bar"},
+		{"main.main", "main"},
+		{"runtime.gcBgMarkWorker", "runtime"},
+		// no package-qualifying dot
+		{"runtime", ""},
+		// compiler/linker-generated symbols belong to no package
+		{"type:.eq.[]string", ""},
+		{"type..hash.runtime._type", ""},
+		{"go:string.\"foo\"", ""},
+	}
+	for _, test := range tests {
+		t.Run(test.name, func(t *testing.T) {
+			assert.Equal(t, test.expected, packagePathFromSymbolName(test.name))
+		})
+	}
 }