Live Discover Query - RDP history

 REVIEWED by Sophos 

As RDP is always a hot topic in the world of security, it might be helpful to gain a report of perhaps who is connecting to where.

The default RDP client, mstsc.exe maintains a history of the computers connected to under the following key to pre-populate the drop-down list:

HKEY_CURRENT_USER\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Terminal Server Client\Default\

They are stored as individual string values, MRU0, MRU1, MRU2, etc..  Therefore the following query could be used:

select data,path from registry  where key like 'HKEY_USERS\%\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Terminal Server Client\Default' and data <> '';

May be adapted for a specific address of a server:

select data as 'Remote RDP Address', path from registry where key like 'HKEY_USERS\%\SOFTWARE\Microsoft\Terminal Server Client\Default' and data <> '' and data ='wibble.wobble.com';

Maybe useful but of course there is nothing stopping the keys being removed.

Jak