KDE PIM/KItinerary/MAV Barcode

Current Version (>= 2020?)

General Observation

• Uses PDF417 barcode format, same content on PDF and in the official app.
• Variable length.
• For domestic tickets only.
• No similarities with a known ERA format.

Outer Structure

• Two byte header, fixed 0x0403.
• Gzip-compressed payload using deflate compression, starting with the standard Gzip header 0x1f8b0800000000000000.
• 256 remaining bytes, high entropy and length suggest a cryptographic signature.

Payload Structure

Note: this is based on very few samples so far and thus isn't very reliable yet!

• Seems byte- rather than bit-aligned.
• String encoding is UTF-8.
• Number encoding seems big endian.
• Content has a high amount of null bytes.
• Date/time values are encoded as seconds since Jan 1st 2017. Times are local but do not account for DST. (Exception: traveler birth date).
• At least three observed variants, so maybe some kind of (fixed-length?) block structure (but no signs of TLV byte 24/25/(26) might suggest some kind of TLV?):
  • 217 bytes, personalized train ticket without seat reservation
  • 274 bytes, personalized train ticket with seat reservation
  • 153 bytes, bike addon ticket
  • 331 bytes, personailed train ticket with seat reservation and "Pótjegy"
  • seems to correlate to the type of light blue boxes on the PDF, but so far it's unclear how to determine which blocks are present

Header/Ticket Block

(for the 217 or 274 byte variants)

Offset	Size	Data Type	Meaning	Notes
0	17	string	ticket number	printed as "CIV" in the PDF
17	1	null	?	null in all samples
18	2	uint16	UIC company code	issuer?, 0x0483 (1155) for MAV
20	4	time	issuing time
24	1	?	ticket type??	'C' for bike addon tickets, 'B' or 'D' for regular tickets (with or without seat reservation, 'E' for tickets with surcharge (and with or without seat reservation), null for "connecting ticket to season ticket"
25	2	?	?
27	1	null	?	null in all samples
28	1	?	ticket type??	0x01 for bike addon block, 0x81 for passenger block
29	1	null	?	null in all samples
30	1	uint8	number of reservation/surcharge blocks
31	4	null	?	null in all samples
35	4	?	?
39	45	string	passenger name	null terminated
84	4	uint32	passenger birth date	year * 10000 + month * 100 + day
88	15	null	?	null in all samples
103	4	?	?
107	3	uint24	UIC departure station code	including the national prefix ('55' for HU)
110	3	uint24	UIC arrival station code
113	90	null	?	null in all samples
203	1	text	class	"1" or "2"
204	1	?	?	0x01 in all samples
205	4	time	time of validity/travel
209	8	?	?

Seat Reservation Block

• 57 bytes long.
• Also used for surcharge ("Pótjegy") blocks, in which case the fields for coach and seat numbers are all null.
• Order of surcharge and reservation blocks seems undefined if both are present.

Offset	Size	Data Type	Meaning	Notes
0	3	uint24	UIC departure station code
3	3	uint24	UIC arrival station code
6	4	?	?
10	4	time	time of validity/travel
14	2	uint16	UIC company code	operator?, 0x0483 (1155) for MAV
16	5	string	train number	null-terminated
21	1	?	?	0x01 in all samples
22	3	string	coach number	null terminated
25	2	uint16	seat number
27	2	uint16	seat number	repeated from byte 25/26?
29	28	null	?	null bytes in all samples

Missing/Suspected Information

• Station names are not included, but station codes might be. UIC station numbers (possibly without the country prefix) would be the obvious suspect, given the MÁV website uses those as well.
• If the train number is included, one would expect at least the day of travel to be included as well.
• Class: several candidate locations exist, but given it's small footprint we need a lot more samples to confirm one of those.

Old Format (<2020?)

General Structure

• QR code containing a hex string
• content of the hex string is zlib-compressed, no header bytes
• result of decompression is a UTF-8 encoded string
  • the first 512 bytes appear to be a hex string again, length and entropy suggest a cryptographic signature
  • the second part looks like a '!' delimited list

Content

Index	Format	Meaning	Notes
0	~<number>	ticket number	printed as "CIV" in the PDF
1		passenger name
2	yyyy.MM.dd	passenger birth date
3		total price	in HUF
4	?	?	"P05"
5	yyyy.MM.dd hh:mm	begin of validity
6	yyyy.MM.dd hh:mm~v	end of validity	no idea what the literal '~v' means there
7	MÁV <number>	travel distance
8	'-' separated string	vias
9		departure station name
10		arrival station name
11			empty?
12			empty?
13			empty?
14			empty?
15		train number	number only, not product/category prefix
16		class
17	yyyy.MM.dd~m	day of travel?
18	string	discount_type	e.g. "Teljesárú" (full price)
19	<number>~h	ticket price	in HUF
20		departure station name	possibly for the seat reservation
21		arrival station name	possibly for the seat reservation
22	yyyy.DD.mm	day of travel?
23	hh:mm	time of departure
24			empty?
25			empty?
26		train number	incl. product/category prefix
27		coach number
28		seat number
29	number	price of reservation	in HUF
30		extension-ticket	"Helyjegy", "Pót- és helyjegy"
31	MÁV <number>	?	same as entry 7, not always present