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Fine-Tuning Cyber Security Defenses: Evaluating Supervised Machine Learning Classifiers for Windows Malware Detection

Islam Zada^1,*, Mohammed Naif Alatawi², Syed Muhammad Saqlain¹, Abdullah Alshahrani³, Adel Alshamran⁴, Kanwal Imran⁵, Hessa Alfraihi⁶

1 Department of Software Engineering, International Islamic University, Islamabad, 25000, Pakistan
2 Information Technology Department, Faculty of Computers and Information Technology, University of Tabuk, Tabuk, 71491, Saudi Arabia
3 Department of Computer Science and Artificial Intelligence, College of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Jeddah, Jeddah, 21493, Saudi Arabia
4 Department of Cybersecurity, College of Computer Science and Engineering, University of Jeddah, Jeddah, 21493, Saudi Arabia
5 Department of Computer Science, University of Peshawar, Peshawar, 25121, Pakistan
6 Department of Information Systems, College of Computer and Information Sciences, Princess Nourah bint Abdulrahman University, Riyadh, 11671, Saudi Arabia

* Corresponding Author: Islam Zada. Email: