Malware attacks have been the highest cyber security threats in many organizations for the last decade. The objective of this research is to analyze malware attacks discovered from implementation of honeypot dionaea at XYZ University. We described malware captured and malware analysis of each malware samples. Our analysis showed that there have been a surge of malware in terms of numbers as well as types and these threats need to be investigated to learn how these attacks affecting higher education network. We presented some recommendation to higher education on how to start their own effort to detect these growing malware attacks and learn how to anticipate malware behavior trends in higher education network.