Leading behaviour of DE at infinity

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This is taken from the book of Bender and Orszag, problem 3.44.

Find the leading behavior as $x\rightarrow+\infty$ of the differential equation:

$x^3y'' - (2x^3 -x^2)y' +(x^3-x^2-1)y=0$

Explain the appearance of a logarithm in the leading behavior. It appears that $e^x$ is a solution and I'm not sure where the logarithm comes from. Usually, one uses the ansatz $y\sim e^{S(x)}$ and does a dominant balance but clearly this method cannot produce a logarithm.