Correction to: Scientific Data https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03027-3, published online 16 February 2024

In this article the reference “Nataraj, L. et al. Malware images: visualization and automatic classification. VizSec '11: Proceedings of the 8th International Symposium on Visualization for Cyber Security. https://doi.org/10.1145/2016904.2016908 (2011)” was missing and should have been cited in the Table 3 caption as ‘Table 3. Image Conversion Rule37’. The original article has been updated.