Color became darker in Illustrator

Hi, I opened two pdf files A and B in Illustrator and I tried to drag A on top of file B. However, I found the color of file A changes (became darker) after I dragged it to B. How I can fix this problem? Thanks!

Nobody knows how your color management is set up
Nobody knows about the color profiles in the PDF
Nobody knows about file formats
Nobody knows how color is defined in your files
Nobody knows what exactly you did or expect
So how should we know what to do?
Maybe it's just different setups: the PDF looks like RGB, maybe your file is CMYK, so conversions might occur. But maybe color just has been set up differently in both files.
See
http://help.adobe.com/en_US/creativesuite/cs/using/WS52323996-D045-437d-BD45-04955E987DFB. html
and the print production guide:
http://www.japsolson.com/adobe-transparency-and-print-production-guides/
Color management is such an integral part of the workflow that you just can't do anything without knowing the basics.

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