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Google Indexed my form attachments and traffic tanked - Suggestions?

I have about a 140 page local business website that gets around 6000 organic visitors per month. I notice traffic tanked late May (consistent with May update).

In GSC, I noticed that around 300 "indexed, not submitted in sitemap" URL's were indexed in late May. Upon further inspection, they were all Formidable form attachments (mostly PDF's) and a lot of them were spammy form submissions (some were legitimate). We now have over 500 URL's indexed and most of them are nonsense PDF's. I'm guessing this had a lot to do with the drop in traffic.

They are all coming from one form, in our "uploads" folder and there's no immediate way to noindex form submission attachments manually or using Yoast.

What would you guys suggest I do? I'm toying with the idea of just using Cpanel to manually delete the 300 form attachments and waiting for Google to realize they are gone.

Thanks, any suggestions would be appreciated!

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