  The nature of the $ \Lambda(1405) $ has been a puzzle for decades, whether it
is a standard three-quark baryon, a hybrid baryon or a baryon-meson molecule.
More information on the decay channels of this particle and its strong, weak
and electromagnetic interactions with other hadrons is needed to clarify its
internal organization. The residue of this particle is one of the main inputs
in investigation of its decay properties in many approaches. We calculate the
mass and residue of $\Lambda(1405)$ state in the context of QCD sum rules
considering it as a hybrid baryon with three-quark---one gluon content as well
as an excited ordinary baryon with quantum numbers $I(J^{P})=0(1/2^{-})$. The
comparison of the obtained results on the mass with the average experimental
value presented in PDG allows us to interpret this state as a hybrid baryon.
