We can get the thumbnail of any page of pdf document. The following example is getting the thumbnail of first page
NSURL* pdfFileUrl = [NSURL fileURLWithPath:filePath];
CGPDFDocumentRef pdf = CGPDFDocumentCreateWithURL((CFURLRef)pdfFileUrl);
CGPDFPageRef page = CGPDFDocumentGetPage(pdf, 1);//for the first page
CGRect aRect = CGPDFPageGetBoxRect(page, kCGPDFCropBox);
UIGraphicsBeginImageContext(aRect.size);
CGContextRef context = UIGraphicsGetCurrentContext();
CGContextSaveGState(context);
CGContextTranslateCTM(context, 0.0, aRect.size.height);
CGContextScaleCTM(context, 1.0, -1.0);
CGContextTranslateCTM(context, -(aRect.origin.x), -(aRect.origin.y));
CGContextSetGrayFillColor(context, 1.0, 1.0);
CGContextFillRect(context, aRect);
CGAffineTransform pdfTransform = CGPDFPageGetDrawingTransform(page, kCGPDFCropBox, aRect, 0, false);
CGContextConcatCTM(context, pdfTransform);
CGContextDrawPDFPage(context, page);
UIImage *thumbnail = UIGraphicsGetImageFromCurrentImageContext();
CGContextRestoreGState(context);
UIGraphicsEndImageContext();
CGPDFDocumentRelease(pdf);