Image-Based Malware Type Classification on MalNet-Image Tiny: Effects of Multi-Scale Fusion, Transfer Learning, Data Augmentation, and Schedule-Free Optimization

Ahmed A. Abouelkhaire, Waleed A. Yousef, Issa Traor

This paper studies 43-class malware type classification on MalNet-Image Tiny, a public benchmark derived from Android APK files. The goal is to assess whether a compact image class…