How to remove glitched nameless app install box?

Hello.
Recently updated my mother's iPad (The New one) to 8.3 from whatever iOS version it was shipped with (it was never updated before). Had to do so only because it was in an endless reboot loop for some reason (maybe due to having way too many apps installed), ending up in restore mode at best. After restoring it from iCloud backup, there's one app that just stuck and won't let me delete it by any means. It's nameless. Literally. When clicking on X button, the confirmation popup has only an empty pair of «». It also has no name after rebooting the device (which fixes its being on "waiting", leaving just empty gray box).
What doesn't work:
- obviously, normal way of deleting via X (which is there, but pressing it has no effect on the app)
- as listed above, rebooting, even by holding Power+Home for hard reboot
- connecting to iTunes and removing it from app managing screen - there's no X on it there
- restoring from iCloud copy again - it *returns* in exact same state, even when using fresh backup
- exiting app store account, rebooting and then logging in again
My guess is this was one of the oldest apps that is no longer on AppStore and/or no longer compatible with the device, while still listed in iCloud backup, but can be wrong on that. There was a hellish ton of free apps installed, my mom pretty much installed everything she could for free and almost never deleted anything, collecting over 1000 apps.
Would appreciate any ideas. Even though it's not that important, but I've been determined to clear this mess, removing 90% of that collection, and this ghost app just keeps bugging me.
Going with clear install without iCloud restore is way to dangerous to even think about. Because, y'know, game progress, millions of cat photos... the loss of that can't possibly be forgiven.

You could try to make a backup in iTunes, and then restore from iTunes.

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