AFV

Activation File Verification
AFV are activation files used for/by development unit, they follow this format Below format is as parsed by firmware 1.692 or below, firmware 1.800 or later expect a newer AFV format.

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, 1546297725, ‭‭2082758400‬,         1, f32fe2cc3a6346714949b219e68391d13766e467053b265d110241c33c7d8e58d4466c84a9d2422511b11a450b34c6db270b51f55d5921ea50c7feb571675a88 bbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbbb, 1546297725, ‭‭2082758400‬,         1, f32fe2cc3a6346714949b219e68391d149cadd26411291837b62c98ad5a7cd8b64dff1c0a224273c9de99327b3a5f6524db261536fe60f657056be94d0ee08d0
 * 1) VITA/ActivationCode
 * 2) format_version=1
 * 3) code_num=2
 * 4) code_size=199

Syntax of the header is as follows:

Activation_ID, start_date(epoch decimal), end_date(epoch decimal)‬, activation_counter, encrypted_activation_token+cmac
 * 1) VITA/ActivationCode
 * 2) format_version=1
 * 3) code_num=1
 * 4) code_size=199

Base token buffer
Build a 0x70 token buffer as follows:

Offset(h) 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F

00000000 61 63 74 00 01 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 7D A1 2A 5C  act.........}¡*\ 00000010 00 5F 24 7C AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA  ._$|ªªªªªªªªªªªª 00000020 AA AA AA AA 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ªªªª............ 00000030 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................ 00000040  61 63 74 00 01 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 7D A1 2A 5C  act.........}¡*\ 00000050 00 5F 24 7C AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA  ._$|ªªªªªªªªªªªª 00000060 AA AA AA AA 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ªªªª............ 00000070 XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX  CMAC will be there

Detailed Structure
It is speculated that on later sony's own encrypted token bytes 0x05 to 0x07 (0x45 to 0x47 in the buffer) are set to avoid having the first encrypted CBC block data repeat across multiple devices. Those bytes are ignored by act_sm and can be all set to 0x00.

AES256-CMAC
Take the 0x70 first bytes of the base token buffer:

Offset(h) 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F

00000000 61 63 74 00 01 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 7D A1 2A 5C  act.........}¡*\ 00000010 00 5F 24 7C AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA  ._$|ªªªªªªªªªªªª 00000020 AA AA AA AA 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ªªªª............ 00000030 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................ 00000040  61 63 74 00 01 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 7D A1 2A 5C  act.........}¡*\ 00000050 00 5F 24 7C AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA  ._$|ªªªªªªªªªªªª 00000060 AA AA AA AA 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ªªªª............

Calculate the AES256-CMAC hash of this buffer using the following command:

For that particular buffer the return value is:

This 0x10 byte result must be written to offset 0x70.

Offset(h) 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F

00000000 61 63 74 00 01 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 7D A1 2A 5C  act.........}¡*\ 00000010 00 5F 24 7C AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA  ._$|ªªªªªªªªªªªª 00000020 AA AA AA AA 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ªªªª............ 00000030 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ................ 00000040  61 63 74 00 01 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 7D A1 2A 5C  act.........}¡*\ 00000050 00 5F 24 7C AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA  ._$|ªªªªªªªªªªªª 00000060 AA AA AA AA 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ªªªª............ 00000070 E5 55 FE 80 6C 33 97 8B 46 94 AF 72 B5 59 7B 1D  åUþ€l3—‹F”¯rµY{.

Intermediate Token
Create a 0x40 buffer using data of your previous buffer from 0x40 to 0x80: Offset(h) 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F

00000000 61 63 74 00 01 00 00 00 01 00 00 00 7D A1 2A 5C  act.........}¡*\ 00000010 00 5F 24 7C AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA AA  ._$|ªªªªªªªªªªªª 00000020 AA AA AA AA 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00 00  ªªªª............ 00000030 E5 55 FE 80 6C 33 97 8B 46 94 AF 72 B5 59 7B 1D  åUþ€l3—‹F”¯rµY{.

Encrypt this 0x40 byte buffer with the following command:

Below is the result for that particular token:

Offset(h) 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F

00000000 F3 2F E2 CC 3A 63 46 71 49 49 B2 19 E6 83 91 D1  ó/âÌ:cFqII².æƒ‘Ñ 00000010 37 66 E4 67 05 3B 26 5D 11 02 41 C3 3C 7D 8E 58  7fäg.;&]..AÃ<}ŽX 00000020 D4 46 6C 84 A9 D2 42 25 11 B1 1A 45 0B 34 C6 DB  ÔFl„©ÒB%.±.E.4ÆÛ 00000030 27 0B 51 F5 5D 59 21 EA 50 C7 FE B5 71 67 5A 88  '.Qõ]Y!êPÇþµqgZˆ 00000040 77 06 44 05 52 64 1C 21 33 91 DB 1B 07 50 67 18  w.D.Rd.!3‘Û..Pg.

Final Token
Get the first 0x40 bytes of that encrypted buffer (disregard the last 0x10 bytes of CBC padding). That will be your final token.

Offset(h) 00 01 02 03 04 05 06 07 08 09 0A 0B 0C 0D 0E 0F

00000000 F3 2F E2 CC 3A 63 46 71 49 49 B2 19 E6 83 91 D1  ó/âÌ:cFqII².æƒ‘Ñ 00000010 37 66 E4 67 05 3B 26 5D 11 02 41 C3 3C 7D 8E 58  7fäg.;&]..AÃ<}ŽX 00000020 D4 46 6C 84 A9 D2 42 25 11 B1 1A 45 0B 34 C6 DB  ÔFl„©ÒB%.±.E.4ÆÛ 00000030 27 0B 51 F5 5D 59 21 EA 50 C7 FE B5 71 67 5A 88  '.Qõ]Y!êPÇþµqgZˆ

Final AFV
You can now create your afv file as shown below:

aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa, 1546297725, ‭‭2082758400‬,         1, f32fe2cc3a6346714949b219e68391d13766e467053b265d110241c33c7d8e58d4466c84a9d2422511b11a450b34c6db270b51f55d5921ea50c7feb571675a88
 * 1) VITA/ActivationCode
 * 2) format_version=1
 * 3) code_num=1
 * 4) code_size=199