diff --git a/lib/Indexer/Model/IndexJob.php b/lib/Indexer/Model/IndexJob.php
index d58b39a00..03cfd5df1 100644
--- a/lib/Indexer/Model/IndexJob.php
+++ b/lib/Indexer/Model/IndexJob.php
@@ -2,13 +2,13 @@
 
 namespace Phpactor\Indexer\Model;
 
-use FilesystemIterator;
 use Generator;
 use Phar;
 use PharFileInfo;
 use Phpactor\TextDocument\TextDocumentBuilder;
 use RecursiveIteratorIterator;
 use SplFileInfo;
+use UnexpectedValueException;
 
 class IndexJob
 {
@@ -24,10 +24,17 @@ public function generator(): Generator
 
         foreach ($this->fileList as $fileInfo) {
             assert($fileInfo instanceof SplFileInfo);
+            if ($fileInfo->isLink()) {
+                continue;
+            }
 
             // TODO: could refactor this to iterate the PHAR in the file list provider.
             if ($fileInfo->getExtension() === 'phar') {
-                $phar = new Phar($fileInfo->getPathname(), FilesystemIterator::CURRENT_AS_FILEINFO | FilesystemIterator::KEY_AS_FILENAME);
+                try {
+                    $phar = new Phar($fileInfo->getPathname());
+                } catch (UnexpectedValueException $e) {
+                    continue;
+                }
                 yield from $this->indexPharFile($phar);
                 continue;
             }
diff --git a/lib/Indexer/Tests/Adapter/PharIndexTest.php b/lib/Indexer/Tests/Adapter/PharIndexTest.php
index a665c1e9a..2d786b6b6 100644
--- a/lib/Indexer/Tests/Adapter/PharIndexTest.php
+++ b/lib/Indexer/Tests/Adapter/PharIndexTest.php
@@ -32,4 +32,13 @@ public function testIndexPhar(): void
         self::assertCount(1, $hellos);
     }
 
+    public function testIndexInvalidPhar(): void
+    {
+        $this->workspace()->put('repo/index.phar', '<?php class Hello{}');
+
+        $agent = $this->indexAgentBuilder('repo')->buildTestAgent();
+        $agent->indexer()->getJob()->run();
+        $hellos = iterator_to_array($agent->search()->search(Criteria::shortNameContains('Hello')));
+        self::assertCount(0, $hellos);
+    }
 }