diff --git a/airflow-core/newsfragments/71125.bugfix.rst b/airflow-core/newsfragments/71125.bugfix.rst
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..70804dbc29436
--- /dev/null
+++ b/airflow-core/newsfragments/71125.bugfix.rst
@@ -0,0 +1 @@
+DAG processor no longer treats non-``.zip`` files (e.g. ``.jar``, ``.pptx``, ``.docx``, ``.xlsx``) that happen to share the underlying zip container format as potential DAG zip bundles.
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diff --git a/airflow-core/src/airflow/dag_processing/importers/python_importer.py b/airflow-core/src/airflow/dag_processing/importers/python_importer.py
index 47f77a86f73ec..0a184ff8b1ce4 100644
--- a/airflow-core/src/airflow/dag_processing/importers/python_importer.py
+++ b/airflow-core/src/airflow/dag_processing/importers/python_importer.py
@@ -111,7 +111,10 @@ def list_dag_files(
         for file_path in find_path_from_directory(directory, ".airflowignore", ignore_file_syntax):
             path = Path(file_path)
             try:
-                if path.is_file() and (path.suffix.lower() == ".py" or zipfile.is_zipfile(path)):
+                if path.is_file() and (
+                    path.suffix.lower() == ".py"
+                    or (path.suffix.lower() == ".zip" and zipfile.is_zipfile(path))
+                ):
                     if might_contain_dag(file_path, safe_mode):
                         yield file_path
             except Exception:
diff --git a/airflow-core/src/airflow/utils/file.py b/airflow-core/src/airflow/utils/file.py
index feeaa5239c3d4..822278f4c3141 100644
--- a/airflow-core/src/airflow/utils/file.py
+++ b/airflow-core/src/airflow/utils/file.py
@@ -107,7 +107,9 @@ def find_dag_file_paths(directory: str | os.PathLike[str], safe_mode: bool) -> l
     for file_path in find_path_from_directory(directory, ".airflowignore", ignore_file_syntax):
         path = Path(file_path)
         try:
-            if path.is_file() and (path.suffix == ".py" or zipfile.is_zipfile(path)):
+            if path.is_file() and (
+                path.suffix == ".py" or (path.suffix == ".zip" and zipfile.is_zipfile(path))
+            ):
                 if might_contain_dag(file_path, safe_mode):
                     file_paths.append(file_path)
         except Exception:
diff --git a/airflow-core/tests/unit/dag_processing/importers/test_python_importer.py b/airflow-core/tests/unit/dag_processing/importers/test_python_importer.py
new file mode 100644
index 0000000000000..9f8a7c08e4326
--- /dev/null
+++ b/airflow-core/tests/unit/dag_processing/importers/test_python_importer.py
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+# Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one
+# or more contributor license agreements.  See the NOTICE file
+# distributed with this work for additional information
+# regarding copyright ownership.  The ASF licenses this file
+# to you under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the
+# "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance
+# with the License.  You may obtain a copy of the License at
+#
+#   http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0
+#
+# Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing,
+# software distributed under the License is distributed on an
+# "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY
+# KIND, either express or implied.  See the License for the
+# specific language governing permissions and limitations
+# under the License.
+"""Tests for PythonDagImporter."""
+
+from __future__ import annotations
+
+import zipfile
+
+from airflow.dag_processing.importers.python_importer import PythonDagImporter
+
+
+class TestPythonDagImporterListDagFiles:
+    def test_list_dag_files_ignores_non_zip_zip_format_files(self, tmp_path):
+        """Files that are zip-format (PK magic bytes) but don't have a .zip suffix should be ignored.
+
+        Regression test for https://github.com/apache/airflow/issues/71125: a .jar, .pptx,
+        .docx, etc. dropped into the DAGs folder happens to share the zip container format,
+        but must not be treated as a DAG zip bundle just because zipfile.is_zipfile() is True.
+        """
+        # A real DAG file.
+        (tmp_path / "dag.py").write_text("from airflow.sdk import DAG\ndag = DAG(dag_id='x')\n")
+
+        # A real, legitimately named zip DAG bundle.
+        zip_bundle = tmp_path / "bundle.zip"
+        with zipfile.ZipFile(zip_bundle, "w") as zf:
+            zf.writestr("inner_dag.py", "from airflow.sdk import DAG\ndag = DAG(dag_id='y')\n")
+
+        # A non-.zip file that nonetheless has the zip container format (e.g. a .jar/.pptx/.docx
+        # would look like this too), so zipfile.is_zipfile() returns True for it.
+        fake_jar = tmp_path / "dependency.jar"
+        with zipfile.ZipFile(fake_jar, "w") as zf:
+            zf.writestr("META-INF/MANIFEST.MF", "Manifest-Version: 1.0\n")
+        assert zipfile.is_zipfile(fake_jar)  # sanity check: it really does sniff as a zip
+
+        importer = PythonDagImporter()
+        detected_files = set(importer.list_dag_files(tmp_path, safe_mode=False))
+
+        assert str(tmp_path / "dag.py") in detected_files
+        assert str(zip_bundle) in detected_files
+        assert str(fake_jar) not in detected_files
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diff --git a/airflow-core/tests/unit/utils/test_file.py b/airflow-core/tests/unit/utils/test_file.py
index cc55c1ac0632e..7a623f82237f7 100644
--- a/airflow-core/tests/unit/utils/test_file.py
+++ b/airflow-core/tests/unit/utils/test_file.py
@@ -180,6 +180,34 @@ def test_get_modules_from_invalid_file(self):
 
         assert len(modules) == 0
 
+    def test_list_py_file_paths_ignores_non_zip_zip_format_files(self, tmp_path):
+        """Files that are zip-format (PK magic bytes) but don't have a .zip suffix should be ignored.
+
+        Regression test for https://github.com/apache/airflow/issues/71125: a .jar, .pptx,
+        .docx, etc. dropped into the DAGs folder happens to share the zip container format,
+        but must not be treated as a DAG zip bundle just because zipfile.is_zipfile() is True.
+        """
+        # A real DAG file.
+        (tmp_path / "dag.py").write_text("from airflow.sdk import DAG\ndag = DAG(dag_id='x')\n")
+
+        # A real, legitimately named zip DAG bundle.
+        zip_bundle = tmp_path / "bundle.zip"
+        with zipfile.ZipFile(zip_bundle, "w") as zf:
+            zf.writestr("inner_dag.py", "from airflow.sdk import DAG\ndag = DAG(dag_id='y')\n")
+
+        # A non-.zip file that nonetheless has the zip container format (e.g. a .jar/.pptx/.docx
+        # would look like this too), so zipfile.is_zipfile() returns True for it.
+        fake_jar = tmp_path / "dependency.jar"
+        with zipfile.ZipFile(fake_jar, "w") as zf:
+            zf.writestr("META-INF/MANIFEST.MF", "Manifest-Version: 1.0\n")
+        assert zipfile.is_zipfile(fake_jar)  # sanity check: it really does sniff as a zip
+
+        detected_files = set(list_py_file_paths(tmp_path, safe_mode=False))
+
+        assert str(tmp_path / "dag.py") in detected_files
+        assert str(zip_bundle) in detected_files
+        assert str(fake_jar) not in detected_files
+
     def test_list_py_file_paths(self, test_zip_path):
         detected_files = set()
         expected_files = set()