Steel Cut

Steel Cut

Known Adware

by Yontoo Technology, Inc.

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.

SteelCutbho.dll (MD5: 63bfe3d0955152a574a24d99fc1972a4) has been flagged by 18 scanners:
Scanner Software Result
Agnitum Outpost Riskware.Agent
AVG Generic
Avira ADWARE/BrowseFox.Gen2
Baidu-International Adware.Win32.BrowseFox.AE
Bkav FE W32.HfsAdware
Cyren W32/S-f64f6ec1!Eldorado
Dr.Web Trojan.Yontoo.1734
ESET-NOD32 a variant of Win32/BrowseFox.AE potentially unwanted
F-Prot W32/S-f64f6ec1
IKARUS anti.virus PUA.BrowseFox
Jiangmin AdWare/SwiftBrowse.dxt
K7 AntiVirus Trojan
K7GW Trojan ( 004b55d71 )
Malwarebytes PUP.Optional.SteelCut.A
NANO AntiVirus Trojan.Win32.Yontoo.dnkubo
Rising Antivirus PE:Adware.BrowseFox!6.1D8B
Tencent Win32.Trojan.Suspicious.Wpad
Vba32 AntiVirus 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:
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Files installed by Steel Cut
File Type Filename MD5
CRX
amnbenjcklhjahamadeadoibbgodnpka.crx
8d9650eee0759c6a10fdcedc65603da8
XPI
{2312ac8b-5063-4c5c-95a3-f326872fb621}.xpi
d8ce7672b27bce6dba9f70683a320508
XPI
{98946827-7431-4790-817d-d5deb83f5aaf}.xpi
39ceff7d69d59c1f807f3ca3d441d90a
XPI
{bf8c8df7-b2cf-4106-8479-3b06199293ba}.xpi
f51e6c7204a364511000194644ccc046
CRX
jgpngmcdajejdfchfibaojgmaadlibgf.crx
25e1ee5b56c02348a9a13d330ddd8af6
CRX
clmkgcfhmmhebfhoajccdjpmaapigbbn.crx
55c91e52de13cb249152f4fc1636617b
CRX
fmflhbfkggocmcfdaaogcddfjhpfljlc.crx
f7c7ad317005b896a49474e71cb39321