diff --git a/be/src/exec/parquet/hdfs-parquet-scanner.cc b/be/src/exec/parquet/hdfs-parquet-scanner.cc
index d06539641..dd81e8c10 100644
--- a/be/src/exec/parquet/hdfs-parquet-scanner.cc
+++ b/be/src/exec/parquet/hdfs-parquet-scanner.cc
@@ -1331,8 +1331,9 @@ Status HdfsParquetScanner::ProcessFooter() {
   uint8_t* magic_number_ptr = buffer + scan_range_len - sizeof(PARQUET_VERSION_NUMBER);
   if (memcmp(magic_number_ptr, PARQUET_VERSION_NUMBER,
              sizeof(PARQUET_VERSION_NUMBER)) != 0) {
+    // Report the ill-formatted Parquet version string in hex.
     return Status(TErrorCode::PARQUET_BAD_VERSION_NUMBER, filename(),
-        string(reinterpret_cast<char*>(magic_number_ptr), sizeof(PARQUET_VERSION_NUMBER)),
+        ReadWriteUtil::HexDump(magic_number_ptr, sizeof(PARQUET_VERSION_NUMBER)),
         scan_node_->hdfs_table()->fully_qualified_name());
   }
 
diff --git a/common/thrift/generate_error_codes.py b/common/thrift/generate_error_codes.py
index 39983a3c2..390b2ce5e 100755
--- a/common/thrift/generate_error_codes.py
+++ b/common/thrift/generate_error_codes.py
@@ -193,7 +193,7 @@ error_codes = (
    "Try running \\\"refresh $1\\\" to reload the file metadata."),
 
   ("PARQUET_BAD_VERSION_NUMBER", 60, "File '$0' has an invalid Parquet version number: "
-   "$1\\n. Please check that it is a valid Parquet file. "
+   "$1.\\nPlease check that it is a valid Parquet file. "
    "This error can also occur due to stale metadata. "
    "If you believe this is a valid Parquet file, try running \\\"refresh $2\\\"."),
 
diff --git a/testdata/workloads/functional-query/queries/QueryTest/parquet.test b/testdata/workloads/functional-query/queries/QueryTest/parquet.test
index b0b188f36..2aee0d0e7 100644
--- a/testdata/workloads/functional-query/queries/QueryTest/parquet.test
+++ b/testdata/workloads/functional-query/queries/QueryTest/parquet.test
@@ -50,7 +50,7 @@ bigint,bigint,string,string,boolean,boolean,bigint,bigint,bigint,bigint
 # Parquet file with invalid magic number
 SELECT * from bad_magic_number
 ---- CATCH
-File '$NAMENODE/test-warehouse/bad_magic_number_parquet/bad_magic_number.parquet' has an invalid Parquet version number: XXXX
+File '$NAMENODE/test-warehouse/bad_magic_number_parquet/bad_magic_number.parquet' has an invalid Parquet version number: 58 58 58 58
 ====
 ---- QUERY
 # count(*) query on parquet file with multiple blocks (one block per node)