Exploit:iPhoneOS/Pidief.A

Detected by Microsoft Defender Antivirus

Aliases: CVE-2010-1797 (other) Exploit.Win32.Pidief.ddc (Kaspersky) Exploit_c.HQH (AVG) EXP/Pidief.cra (Avira) PDF/Exploit.Pidief.OXS (ESET) Exploit.Pidief (Ikarus) Troj/PDFEx-DT (Sophos) TROJ_PIDIEF.HLA (Trend Micro)

Summary

Exploit:iPhoneOS/Pidief.A is the detection for specially-crafted PDF files that exploit a memory corruption vulnerability in the Preview PDF viewer for the iPhone operating system.

To detect and remove this threat and other malicious software that may be installed in your computer, run a full-system scan with an up-to-date antivirus product such as the following:

Microsoft Security Essentials
Microsoft Safety Scanner

For more information on antivirus software, see http://www.microsoft.com/windows/antivirus-partners/.

Exploit:iPhoneOS/Pidief.A

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