Advancing malware imagery classification with explainable deep learning: A state-of-the-art approach using SHAP, LIME and Grad-CAM

• Sadia Nazim ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sadia Nazim, Muhammad Mansoor Alam, Syed Safdar Rizvi, Jawahir Che Mustapha, Syed Shujaa Hussain, Mazliham Mohd Suud

  Roles Conceptualization, Data curation, Formal analysis, Investigation, Methodology, Resources, Software, Validation, Visualization, Writing – original draft, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliations Malaysian Institute of Information Technology, Universiti Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, Department of Computer Science, Bahria University Islamabad, Islamabad, Pakistan

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-0113-9760

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• Muhammad Mansoor Alam ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sadia Nazim, Muhammad Mansoor Alam, Syed Safdar Rizvi, Jawahir Che Mustapha, Syed Shujaa Hussain, Mazliham Mohd Suud

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Faculty of Computing, Riphah International University, Islamabad, Pakistan

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• Syed Safdar Rizvi ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sadia Nazim, Muhammad Mansoor Alam, Syed Safdar Rizvi, Jawahir Che Mustapha, Syed Shujaa Hussain, Mazliham Mohd Suud

  Roles Formal analysis, Methodology, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Computer Science, Bahria University Karachi, Karachi, Pakistan

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• Jawahir Che Mustapha ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sadia Nazim, Muhammad Mansoor Alam, Syed Safdar Rizvi, Jawahir Che Mustapha, Syed Shujaa Hussain, Mazliham Mohd Suud

  Roles Investigation, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  * E-mail: jawahir@unikl.edu.my

  Affiliation Malaysian Institute of Information Technology, Universiti Kuala Lumpur, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

  https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4763-6797

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• Syed Shujaa Hussain ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sadia Nazim, Muhammad Mansoor Alam, Syed Safdar Rizvi, Jawahir Che Mustapha, Syed Shujaa Hussain, Mazliham Mohd Suud

  Roles Formal analysis, Investigation, Validation, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Computer Science, Sir Syed CASE Institute of Technology, Islamabad, Pakistan

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• Mazliham Mohd Suud

  Contributed equally to this work with: Sadia Nazim, Muhammad Mansoor Alam, Syed Safdar Rizvi, Jawahir Che Mustapha, Syed Shujaa Hussain, Mazliham Mohd Suud

  Roles Conceptualization, Supervision, Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Multimedia University, Persiaran Multimedia, Cyberjaya, Selangor, Malaysia

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