diff --git a/Packet++/header/NflogLayer.h b/Packet++/header/NflogLayer.h
index 4df4d5d25a..2112a63b2e 100644
--- a/Packet++/header/NflogLayer.h
+++ b/Packet++/header/NflogLayer.h
@@ -101,7 +101,14 @@ namespace pcpp
 		/**
 		 * @return recordLen attribute in NflogTLVRawData
 		 */
-		size_t getTotalSize() const { return m_Data->recordLen; }
+		size_t getTotalSize() const
+		{
+			// as in https://github.com/the-tcpdump-group/libpcap/blob/766b607d60d8038087b49fc4cf433dac3dcdb49c/pcap-util.c#L371-L374
+			uint16_t size = m_Data->recordLen;
+			if (size % 4 != 0)
+				size += 4 - size % 4;
+			return size;
+		}
 
 		/**
 		 * Assign a pointer to the TLV record raw data (byte array)
@@ -109,15 +116,7 @@ namespace pcpp
 		 */
 		void assign(uint8_t* recordRawData)
 		{
-			if(recordRawData == nullptr)
-				m_Data = nullptr;
-			else
-			{
-				// to pass from some unknown paddings after tlv with type NFULA_PREFIX
-				while (*recordRawData == 0)
-					recordRawData += 1;
-				m_Data = (NflogTLVRawData*)recordRawData;
-			}
+			m_Data = (NflogTLVRawData*)recordRawData;
 		}
 
 		/**
diff --git a/Tests/Packet++Test/Tests/NflogTests.cpp b/Tests/Packet++Test/Tests/NflogTests.cpp
index 0aabea2f04..ec8a5fb1df 100644
--- a/Tests/Packet++Test/Tests/NflogTests.cpp
+++ b/Tests/Packet++Test/Tests/NflogTests.cpp
@@ -38,14 +38,14 @@ PTF_TEST_CASE(NflogPacketParsingTest)
 		pcpp::NflogTlvType::NFULA_PAYLOAD
 	};
 
-	int optSizes[6] = {8, 5, 8, 8, 8, 65};
+	int optSizes[6] = {8, 8, 8, 8, 8, 68};
 	std::string optDataAsHexString[6] = {
 		"0800010000000300",
-		"05000a0000",
+		"05000a0000000000",
 		"0800050000000002",
 		"08000b0000000000",
 		"08000e0000000000",
-		"410009004500003d021040004011208f0a00020f0a000203a542003500294156c04e0100000100000000000003777777076578616d706c65036e65740000010001"
+		"410009004500003d021040004011208f0a00020f0a000203a542003500294156c04e0100000100000000000003777777076578616d706c65036e657400000100012f0a31"
 	};
 
 	for (int i = 0; i < 6; i++) {
@@ -56,5 +56,5 @@ PTF_TEST_CASE(NflogPacketParsingTest)
 	}
 
 	/// sum of all TLVs before payload + size of nflog_header + size of (recordLength + recordType) variables of payload TLV
-	PTF_ASSERT_EQUAL(nflogLayer->getHeaderLen(), 45);
+	PTF_ASSERT_EQUAL(nflogLayer->getHeaderLen(), 48);
 }