Rapid expansion of Industrial Internet of Things (IIoT) systems has heightened the vulnerability of critical infrastructure to sophisticated malware attacks. Traditional signature-based detection methods are ineffective against evolving threats, and many machine learning models fail to capture temporal behavior, offer interpretability, or operate efficiently in resource-constrained environments. This study proposes HMF-Net, a Hierarchical Multi-Feature Network, for accurate, interpretable, and efficient IIoT malware detection. HMF-Net combines hierarchical VT-Tag embedding (HVTE) to model semantic behavioral information, temporal detection ratio analysis (TDRA) to capture confidence variations for polymorphic malware, and static structural binary features. These features are fused using an adaptive attention mechanism that dynamically prioritizes the most informative modalities during classification. The framework is evaluated on an IIoT malware dataset with 2515 samples from six malware families using five-fold cross-validation. Results show HMF-Net achieves 92.47% accuracy, outperforming Gradient Boosting (90.57%), Random Forest (88.52%), DeepMLP (87.26%), and SimpleMLP (84.34%) with
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Computers, Materials & Continua 2026, 87(3)
Published: 09 April 2026
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