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Conventional malware detection methods, such as signature-based, static, and dynamic analysis, face challenges in detecting obfuscated techniques, including encryption, packing, and compression, in malware. Although developers have created several visualization techniques for malware detection using deep learning (DL), they often fail to accurately identify the critical malicious features of malware. This research introduces MalVis, a unified visualization framework that integrates entropy and N-gram analysis to emphasize meaningful structural and anomalous operational patterns within the malware bytecode. By addressing significant limitations of existing visualization methods, such as insufficient feature representation, limited interpretability, small dataset sizes, and restricted data access, MalVis delivers enhanced detection capabilities, particularly for obfuscated and previously unseen (zero-day) malware. The framework leverages the MalVis dataset introduced in this work, a publicly available large-scale dataset comprising more than 1.3 million visual representations in nine malware classes and one benign class. A comprehensive comparative evaluation was performed against existing state-of-the-art visualization techniques using leading convolutional neural network (CNN) architectures, MobileNet-V2, DenseNet201, ResNet50, VGG16, and Inception-V3. To further boost classification performance and mitigate overfitting, the outputs of these models were combined using eight distinct ensemble strategies. To address the issue of imbalanced class distribution in the multiclass dataset, we employed an undersampling technique to ensure balanced learning across all types of malware. MalVis achieved superior results, with 95% accuracy, 90% F1-score, 92% precision, 89% recall, 87% Matthews Correlation Coefficient (MCC), and 98% Receiver Operating Characteristic Area Under Curve (ROC-AUC). 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