QuickSand
Compact C framework for analyzing suspected malware documents and detecting exploits and embedded executables.
Compact C framework for analyzing suspected malware documents and detecting exploits and embedded executables.
Checked October 2026.
QuickSand is a compact C framework designed to analyze suspected malware documents, with the ability to identify exploits in streams of different encodings and extract embedded executables, supporting file formats like doc, docx, ppt, pptx, xls, xlsx, and more, including PDF.
It can detect documents containing zero-day or unknown obfuscated exploits, with features like XOR Bitwise, math ciphers, executable extraction for Windows, Mac, Linux, VBA, exploit search, Yara signatures, and more.
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QuickSand is a product in the Malware Analysis category. It covers File Analysis.
QuickSand is free. Download and setup instructions are at https://github.com/tylabs/qs_old.
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QuickSand is available as on-premises software. It is listed for small businesses, mid-market companies and enterprises. It is free.
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