ACT.DAT

Description

An activation file for a Sony Playstation console, based on an account email and password, the devices IDPS, the platform and activation type.

It is used to decrypt NPDRM content license files (.rif) and EDAT files, which themselves lead to content decryption (PFS layer, SELF layer).

Location

PSP

?flash0:NPDRM/ACT.DAT?

PS3

hdd0:home/000000XX/exdata/act.dat

PSVita

tm0:npdrm/act.dat
tm0:psmdrm/act.dat (only if PSM Is activated)

Structure

Name	Offset	Size	Example	Remark
Activation Type	0x0	0x4	00000001
Version	0x4	0x4	00000001, 00000002	1 (PSP and PS3 parser) or 2 (PSVita parser)
Account ID	0x8	0x8	AB CD EF 01 02 34 78 91	PSN Account ID (in little endian)
Primary Key Table	0x10	0x800	N.A	Encrypted RIF keys table
Unknown1	0x810	0x40	N.A
OpenPsId	0x850	0x10	N.A
Unknown3	0x860	0x10	N.A	Encrypted_data for v.1 / Padding for v.2
Unknown4	0x870	0x10	N.A	Encrypted_data for v.1 / Time_Stamp for v.2
Secondary Table	0x880	0x650	N.A
RSA Signature	0xED0	0x100	N.A	RSA Public Key for RIF type 0 and 1
Unknown Sig	0xFD0	0x40	N.A	params are unknown
ECDSA Signature	0x1010	0x28	N.A	pub=vsh_pub, ctype=0x02(vsh_curves)

The Primary Key table is unique per PSN account. It is encrypted using ECB with the ConsoleId of the console activated with this PSN account.

Downloading

NOT WORKING ANYMORE.

A PHP script is released to obtain the act.dat. See [playstationhax.xyz]

[pastie]

<?php
 $data = array(
         "loginid" => "", /* email */
         "password" => "", /*pass */
         "consoleid" => "", /* 000000000000000000000 */
         "platform" => "psp2", /* for vita, don't modify, possible parameters psp,ps3,psp2.ps4 is unknown */
         "acttype" => "4", /* for vita, don't modify */
 );
 $custom_headers = array(
         "X-I-5-DRM-Version: 1.0",
 );
 
 $ch = curl_init();
 
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, "https://commerce.np.ac.playstation.net/cap.m");
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_USERAGENT, "8888888");
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, $custom_headers);
 
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POST, 1);
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_POSTFIELDS, http_build_query($data));
 
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER, 0);
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYHOST, 0);
 
 //curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 1);
 //curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CERTINFO, 1);
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_VERBOSE, 1);
 
 $response = curl_exec($ch);
 
 curl_close($ch);
 
 $fp = fopen("act.dat", "wb");
 fwrite($fp, $response);
 fclose($fp); 
 ?>

Related

• Act.dat (PSN activation) gets deleted