The quick improvement of up-to-date communication technology has generated ubiquitous electromagnetic wave (EMW), which poses a significant hazard to environment and human health. One of the key challenges associated with EMW is to develop highly lightweight and efficient adsorption materials that are able to alleviate the unfavorable interferences in wide-ranging frequency. Herein, we fabricated a hybrid porous carbon nanofibers (CNFs) membrane combined with reduced graphene oxide (rGO) and magnetic nanoparticles by electrospinning process followed by calcination. The composite membrane exhibited high-efficiency absorbing abilities due to its particular porous structure and introduced components in the final sample. Specifically, both cobalt and iron nanoparticles captured into CNFs are advantageous to the electrical conductivity of the membrane by lessening the contact loss via creating the metal-metal crossing points within membrane. The introduced components are capable of enhancing the absorption performance due to the improved permittivity (epsilon(r)) and permeability (mu(r)) in the composite structure. The minimum reflection loss (R-L min) value was demonstrated to be -43.60 dB at 5.84 GHz with a matching thickness of 5 mm. The synthesis of nanofibrous composite in this work identifies a new direction to fabricate advanced EMW absorption materials towards broad practical applications. (C) 2019 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.