Steel Cut
What is Steel Cut?
Steel Cut is software application developed by Yontoo Technology, Inc.. It is most commonly found on computers running Windows 10 with nearly 50.00% of installations running this operating system. Steel Cut's installer is typically 0.90 MB in size and installs around 17 files. The most common release is 2016.04.12.024052 with 2.33% of all installations currently using this version.
Steel Cut is most popular in the United States with 28.53% of installations residing in this country.
About Steel Cut?
Steel Cut is a software program designed to function as an adware plugin for web browsers. Its primary purpose is to inject and present various forms of advertisements to users, such as banner ads, text-links, and promotional offers. These ads are delivered through methods including injecting them directly into the user's web browser and displaying popups outside of the browser interface.
Multiple virus scanners have detected malware in Steel Cut.
| Scanner Software | Version | Result |
|---|---|---|
| Agnitum Outpost | 7.1.1 | Riskware.Agent |
| AVG | 2016.0.3141 | Generic |
| Avira | 3.6.1.96 | ADWARE/BrowseFox.Gen2 |
| Baidu-International | 4.0.3.15413 | Adware.Win32.BrowseFox.AE |
| Bkav FE | 1.3.0.6379 | W32.HfsAdware |
| Cyren | 5.4.16.7 | W32/S-f64f6ec1!Eldorado |
| Dr.Web | 9.0.0.0103 | Trojan.Yontoo.1734 |
| ESET-NOD32 | 9.11430 | a variant of Win32/BrowseFox.AE potentially unwanted |
| F-Prot | v6.4.7.1.166 | W32/S-f64f6ec1 |
| IKARUS anti.virus | t3scan.1.8.9.0 | PUA.BrowseFox |
| Jiangmin | KV150413 | AdWare/SwiftBrowse.dxt |
| K7 AntiVirus | 13.202.15489 | Trojan |
| K7GW | 13.202.15489 | Trojan ( 004b55d71 ) |
| Malwarebytes | v2015.04.13.03 | PUP.Optional.SteelCut.A |
| NANO AntiVirus | 0.30.8.659 | Trojan.Win32.Yontoo.dnkubo |
| Rising Antivirus | 23.00.65.15411 | PE:Adware.BrowseFox!6.1D8B |
| Tencent | 1.0.0.1 | Win32.Trojan.Suspicious.Wpad |
| Vba32 AntiVirus | 3.12.26.3 | AdWare.MSIL.Agent |
Software Behaviors
- Services:
-
- updateSteelCut.exe runs as a service named 'Update Steel Cut' (Update Steel Cut).
Software Details
- URL:
- https://mysteelcut.com/support
- Support:
- https://mailto:
- Installation path:
- C:\Program Files\Steel Cut
- Uninstaller:
- C:\Program Files\Steel Cut\SteelCutuninstall.exe
- Size:
- 0.90 MB
- Language:
- English
Steel Cut Executable Details
- Primary executable:
- SteelCutbho.dll
- Name:
- Steel Cut
- Path:
- C:\Program Files\Steel Cut\SteelCutbho.dll
- MD5:
- 63bfe3d0955152a574a24d99fc1972a4
- SHA-1:
- –
- SHA-256:
- –
| File Type | Filename | MD5 |
|---|---|---|
|
EXE
|
54561c9ad218e90d5a62c11fa4bca840 | |
|
EXE
|
b3debe61b78973b664faeb8712d53573 | |
|
EXE
|
a13c9a5aeaa120651bb71cac6e01a155 | |
|
DLL
|
SteelCutbho.dll
Adware
|
63bfe3d0955152a574a24d99fc1972a4 |
|
CRX
|
62e8583611aee94a2014bdace7557a2b | |
|
XPI
|
b98509cf18f29bf5658ca2abfecafb41 | |
|
XPI
|
c4ec66e24883006cae3b14b598f81219 | |
|
CRX
|
7dc26b26e638c6d273f3e74efa67b6f0 | |
|
XPI
|
191597ae1513b638aad06b1fb5195b1e | |
|
CRX
|
f5e3bb92a888defdf3068130d4499ef9 |