diff --git a/lib/galaxy/datatypes/test/im_corrupted.tif b/lib/galaxy/datatypes/test/im_corrupted.tif
deleted file mode 120000
index 98212d50a0c6..000000000000
--- a/lib/galaxy/datatypes/test/im_corrupted.tif
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1 +0,0 @@
-../../../../test-data/im_corrupted.tif
\ No newline at end of file
diff --git a/test-data/im_corrupted.tif b/test-data/im_corrupted.tif
deleted file mode 100644
index e5f09c679df4..000000000000
Binary files a/test-data/im_corrupted.tif and /dev/null differ
diff --git a/test/unit/data/datatypes/test_images.py b/test/unit/data/datatypes/test_images.py
index 57034f6145da..461bad7373df 100644
--- a/test/unit/data/datatypes/test_images.py
+++ b/test/unit/data/datatypes/test_images.py
@@ -88,11 +88,6 @@ def test_tiff_empty(metadata):
     __assert_empty_metadata(metadata)
 
 
-@__test(Tiff, "im_corrupted.tif")
-def test_tiff_corrupted(metadata):
-    __assert_empty_metadata(metadata)
-
-
 @__test(Tiff, "1.tiff")
 def test_tiff_unsupported_compression(metadata):
     # If the compression of a TIFF is unsupported, some fields should still be there