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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 27, 2026
Filed:
Jun. 22, 2022
Mcafee, Llc, San Jose, CA (US);
Yonghong Huang, Hillsboro, OR (US);
McAfee, LLC, San Jose, CA (US);
Abstract
Methods, apparatus, systems, and articles of manufacture are disclosed. An example apparatus comprises at least one memory, instructions, and processor circuitry to execute the instructions. The processor circuitry executes the instructions to provide a neural network a plurality of raw bytes for malware classification. The processor circuitry executes the instructions to generate a visualization of features extracted from the plurality of raw bytes. The processor circuitry executes the instructions to generate a heatmap for the plurality of raw bytes based on gradient activations of the neural networks. The processor circuitry executes the instructions to perform a dimensionality reduction based on features of the plurality of raw bytes identified in the heatmap.